The new OEIS search page!!!!!

[Graeme McRae]

Yes, it's the web browser which is in charge of hyphenating, but it needs 
help.  An example of a sequence that breaks inappropriately using Internet 
Explorer is http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/A56592, which 
exhibits bad wrapping at -302332...  As you say, Russ, a line break can 
ordinarily follow a regular "hyphen" character.  There is, however, a 
Unicode "minus" character, which doesn't cause this wrapping.  In HTML, you 
can generate it with & followed by #8722;  I have created two pages with a 
whole lot of negative numbers to illustrate this point:

http://mcraeclan.com/test1.htm uses ordinary hyphens as minus signs.  You 
will notice the inappropriate line breaks if you are using Internet Explorer 
as your browser.

http://mcraeclan.com/test2.htm uses the Unicode "minus" character.  There 
are no inappropriate line breaks if you use Internet Explorer.

--Graeme

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Cox" <russcox at gmail.com>
To: <franktaw at netscape.net>
Cc: <seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: The new OEIS search page!!!!!


>> One more problem - when displaying a signed sequence, there is a
>> disconcerting tendency to put a minus sign at the end of the line, with 
>> the
>> number proper at the start of the new line.
>
> The web browser is in charge of the line wrapping, so it is the
> one making this decision.  Presumably your web browser
> believes that the minus sign is a hyphen and wraps it there
> instead of using the space that precedes it.  I looked at some
> signed sequences in Firefox and don't have that behavior there.
>
> Which web browser are you using?  I'm curious to know, but I don't
> think there's much we can do.
>
> Russ
>
>