Re: RFC: more of that almost-book

Bill,

Cool.

One bit of feedback on the typography: The book uses some characters that are not available in many fonts. For example, the THIN SPACE (U+2009) is used after :: in Perl::Identifiers::Like::This. I suspect your goal was typographic refinement, but the result, at least when the characters are not available, is exacly the opposite: the browser inserts a big, fat I-can't-find-that-character-in-the-font-so-I'll-use-this-boxy-all-purpose-placeholder glyph instead. The result looks pretty bad: Perl::[]Identifiers::[]Like::[]This.

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Re^2: RFC: more of that almost-book by billh (Pilgrim) on Oct 16, 2006 at 14:38 UTC
Yeah, I was just messing about, trying to achieve a discretionary line-break (I'd really have liked a zero-width space for that in fact :-) I'll remove them when I next push (they're added as part of the transform, not inline in the source). Bill H `perl -e 'print sub { "Hello @{[shift]}!\n" }->("World")'` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: RFC: more of that almost-book by radiantmatrix (Parson) on Oct 26, 2006 at 16:14 UTC
Discretionary line breaks can be achieved with the Soft Hyphen (, I think). However, it doesn't work in Firefox (or other gecko-based UAs), and where it is supported elsewhere, it will add a hyphen before the break. Don't know if that helps or hurts, but might give you a place to start. <–radiant.matrix–> Ramblings and references The Code that can be seen is not the true Code I haven't found a problem yet that can't be solved by a well-placed trebuchet	[reply]


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