Dmitry Dzhus wrote: > I've spend a lot of time playing with different approaches to breaking > big text into pieces in the past. Now I'm quite sure that any solution > which tries to split a text _automagically_ sucks no matter what is it > based on — word count, paragraphs, anything. You'll have to deal with > numerous entities any text consist of — characters, words, sentences, > paragraphs, images; markup doubles the pain. The worst thing about is > that in 90% of cases people will still see either sentence which is torn > apart, or widows (today Django's paginator can, or lost > markup, or illustrations will end up on the next page, article sections > will be messed, et cetera, et cetera. Typography is not easy, you have > to manually fine-tune your output even with TeX, so
(oops) I've spend a lot of time playing with different approaches to breaking big text into pieces in the past. Now I'm quite sure that any solution which attempts to split a text _automagically_ sucks no matter what it is based on — word count, paragraphs, anything. You'll have to deal with numerous entities any text consist of — characters, words, sentences, paragraphs, images; markup doubles the pain. The worst thing about it is that in 90% of cases people will still see either sentence which is torn apart, or widows (today Django's paginator can deal with orphans, though, but it won't help much in your case), or lost markup, or illustrations will end up on the next page, article sections will get messed, et cetera, et cetera. Typography is not easy, you have to manually fine-tune your output even with TeX, so I'd not consider doing it on the web an easy task. -- Happy Hacking. http://sphinx.net.ru む --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
