Re: Hyphenation on Web Application Pages

Subject: Re: Hyphenation on Web Application Pages
From: Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com, Pro TechWriter <pro -dot- techwriter -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:13:21 -0700 (PDT)


Why not just widen the column to remove the need for hyphenating?

--- On Tue, 7/14/09, Pro TechWriter <pro -dot- techwriter -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> From: Pro TechWriter <pro -dot- techwriter -at- gmail -dot- com>
> Subject: Hyphenation on Web Application Pages
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 4:28 PM
> Hi Whirlers:
> We have a dilemma. There is a welcome page that our users
> see that allows
> them to log in and see someone else's work. The written
> text on this page
> was done by someone else (not a technical communicator).
>
> I was told that it was written to be more "friendly" than
> the usual
> technical writing. (It starts with the equivalent of "dude"
> and it's not a
> gaming system!)
>
> There are a few problems with it, including some pretty
> obvious grammar
> errors, but I am wondering about something else. The text
> is in a rather
> narrow column down the side of the page, and some of it is
> hyphenated (and
> hyphenated at the first two characters).  I have
> noticed recently that some
> of the twenty- and thirty-somethings around here have some
> trouble reading
> hyphenated words in text.
>
> This got me thinking. I could think of very few examples of
> hyphenated text
> in columns in recent articles. It is rare even in our local
> newspaper. I
> think we should not hyphenate the text in the browser
> window, but I don't
> have any hard evidence to support this, just watching
> people try to read
> it.
>
> Any comments, opinions, hard data?
>
> Thanks,
>
> PT
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