In article <534696f6bcbbailey@argonet.co.uk>, Brian Bailey
<bbailey@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> > #1096
> > I included a list of names on a webpage the other day and my
> > co-editor doesn't like to see name split across a line. I agree: when
> > lines are long a split name looks silly when you can easily place a
> > non-breaking space between forename and surname. Browsers know not to
> > split a line at a non-breaking space, don't they? Except Netsurf?
> > I have not reported this as a bug (yet) because I expect a crescendo
> > of "we know"!
> > See the production crew near the foot of the page. All the names have
> > in them:
> > http://www.youngtheatre.co.uk/archive/199209_blithespirit/
> > (One aspect of line endings I see does seem to be fixed and that was
> > the spurious line feeds which I saw in tables. Hurrah for that!!)
> Not sure if you are or aren't saying that you are unhappy with the end
> result.
I would prefer it if Netsurf would treat as the special kind of
space it is and not break lines at it.
> I'm no expert but isn't something odd happening round the last
> '&' where the ';' doesn't show. Is that forcing the surname to the next
> line, perhaps??
I don't think so. The semi-colon at the end of most names is just that, a
semi-colon. Using commmas, no punctuation or missing one off a couple of
names doesn't make any difference. All the and the & entities
are intact.
Just a bare-bones list of random words separated in pairs with only
between the words of each pair still has linebreaks at the
where it shouldn't. There is nothing special about the list of names I
was using. More's the pity.
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