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Consider disabling by default: typography.hyphenation #6

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fvsch opened this issue May 26, 2016 · 2 comments
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Consider disabling by default: typography.hyphenation #6

fvsch opened this issue May 26, 2016 · 2 comments
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fvsch commented May 26, 2016

Feel free to close this issue if you disagree. :)

Rationale: while other things like typographically incorrect quotes and fake dashes (--) can be seen as defects or limitations of the source text that should probably be corrected whenever possible, hyphenation is a design choice that designers should probably opt in. Especially since it's very uncommon on the web.

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fabianmichael commented May 26, 2016

While I generally agree with your opinion that hyphenation is a design choice, I still think that this is one of the key features of both wp-Typography and Kirby-Typography. If you only need a few basic typographic enhancements, you’re IMHO better off with using SmartyPants, which is much faster than the PHP-Typography parser – though not that extensive. So I prefer to leave this setting enabled by default.

If you use a decent text editor, replacements like Smart Quotes can also be done before SmartyPants or PHP-Typography come into play. Same goes for dashes. If you’re on OS X, they’re easy to type anyway. With German keyboard Layout for example, you just have to hit - to get an EN dash and - to get an EM dash.

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fvsch commented May 26, 2016

Makes sense. :)

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