On 12/06/15 19:45, Devin Asay wrote:
On Jun 12, 2015, at 10:34 AM, Richmond <[email protected]> wrote:
On 12/06/15 18:50, Devin Asay wrote:
I think I know the answer to this (“No."), but thought I’d ask. Is there any
way to implement soft hyphens in a LiveCode field? What about zero-width spaces? I’m
working on a project in LC 6.7, but will probably be moving it to 7.0 soon. I
haven’t been able to get it to work in 6.7.
Sorry for my stupidity: but what is a 'soft hyphen', and, by extension, what is
a 'hard hyphen’?
Oh, sorry, a soft hyphen is a hyphen that is shown optionally. If a word with a soft
hyphen embedded in it occurs close to the end of a line of text, the word may be broken
at the soft hyphen and a hyphen will be shown. Anywhere else in the line of text, the
word will be displayed normally, with no break or hyphen. The html entity for a soft
hyphen is ­ or ­. I have tested this in LC, and the engine’s HTML
rendering just ignores it.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen
This is very interesting indeed.
How does one embed a soft hyphen in a word to start with?
Richmond.
A hard hyphen would be one that is typed by the person entering the text, and
would be followed by a hard return—a return or cr constant in LiveCode parlance.
Devin
Devin Asay
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University
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