The new OEIS search page!!!!!
Russ Cox
russcox at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 21:55:57 CET 2006
> 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;
Thanks for the suggestion. I just tried this, but I didn't
like the result. When I copy sequence data from Firefox
and paste into a text window, all the minus signs turn
into the text \u2212. I think enough people copy and paste
into Mathematica, Matlab, etc., that this is a bigger problem
than the occasional bad line wrap.
Also, IE's interpretation is wrong: if the hyphen appears at the
beginning of the word, that's not a useful place to break the line.
The same would happen in a list of suffixes, as in "English plural
suffixes include -s, -es, and -ies."
Russ
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