Attempting to create an aesthetic global line breaking algorithm

Re:Attempting to create an aesthetic global line breaking al... by anyfoo on Thursday June 16, 2022 @03:24PM (#31769904)

If true, I wonder if that mixup is somehow connected to the author’s original language. (Probably Finnish, from the name?)

In German, “chapter” has a very direct translation, “Kapitel” (English and German are extremely related after all), and though “paragraph” in its common text usage has its own word, “Absatz”, the literal word “Paragraf” also exists and is used mostly when referring to laws.

So I wonder whether Finnish, which I know next nothing about, is significantly different there.

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Re:Attempting to create an aesthetic global line breaking al... by layer8 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @06:01PM (#31771538)

Apparently “kappale” means “paragraph” in Finnish, and “chapter” is a false friend.

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Re:Attempting to create an aesthetic global line breaking al... by anyfoo on Friday June 17, 2022 @12:32AM (#31774147)

That was exactly the kind of insight I was looking for, thanks!

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Re:Attempting to create an aesthetic global line breaking al... by pfortuny on Thursday June 16, 2022 @03:31PM (#31769962)

I am sure that is an honest mistake, it is just confusing to the reader.

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Re:Attempting to create an aesthetic global line breaking al... by anyfoo on Thursday June 16, 2022 @03:50PM (#31770139)

Oh yeah, I was just curious whether the author's native language (assuming it's not English) had interesting features that would lead to such a mistake.

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