Re: [sword-devel] Hyphenation in the context of narrow displays

2010-10-28 Thread Chris Little
I suspect these modules don't include paragraph marking other than a blank line encoded via two linebreaks, so it might be slightly difficult to detect paragraphs. It's better if we just re-issue this content, since it is truly ancient and it looks bad it pretty much every front end. (Just fil

Re: [sword-devel] Hyphenation in the context of narrow displays

2010-10-28 Thread David Haslam
Nic, Perhaps the solution might be for 'small device' front-ends like PocketSword & And-Bible or Bishop, etc., to include a module option to suppress line breaks within paragraphs? Providing paragraphs were separated by two line breaks, it should still be feasible technically. Just a thought...

Re: [sword-devel] Hyphenation in the context of narrow displays

2010-10-27 Thread Nic Carter
Another issue that may need to be addressed in regards to this is that some of our commentaries have fixed line lengths and then have inserted a newline character (?)... It would be great to have these removed, but I can't remember any particular modules that have this. This is especially not

Re: [sword-devel] Hyphenation in the context of narrow displays

2010-10-27 Thread Jonathan Morgan
Slightly different scope, but one project that does hyphenation in Javascript (seemingly based on the LaTeX algorithm) is at http://code.google.com/p/hyphenator/. It is used in the new version of BPBible. I don't know how well it adapts to Biblical texts, but it says it supports a number of langu

[sword-devel] Hyphenation in the context of narrow displays

2010-10-27 Thread David Haslam
For many mobile devices such as cell phones, the line length of text is often limited by the narrow width of the display screen. This accentuates the problem of hyphenation for long words. i.e. Where to split a word and hyphenate it properly between syllables. One of the projects at bfbs lingui