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To avoid awkward hyphenation, may we rephrase this text? Original (comment 6) #4972

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LPardue opened this issue Mar 25, 2022 · 2 comments
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LPardue commented Mar 25, 2022

To avoid awkward hyphenation, may we rephrase this text?

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The string uses one bit for the Huffman flag,
followed by the Length encoded as an (N-1)-bit prefix integer.

Perhaps:
The string uses one bit for the Huffman flag,
followed by the Length encoded as a prefix integer of (N-1) bits.

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I'm hesitant to do this, as "X-bit prefix integer" is the term we've consistently used. Perhaps rewording to avoid using N would be clearer?

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Based on previous discussion, I think the fact that we use "X-bit prefix integer" consistently through this document means we have to live with this awkward hyphenation.

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