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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