Better typography with text-wrap pretty

Re:Better typography with text-wrap pretty by ashton314 on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @10:58PM (#43628494)

MB over-engineered that book. Example: look at the paragraph that stars “But I don’t have visual skills” on this page: https://practicaltypography.com/why-does-typography-matter.h...

Notice how the open quotation marks hang into the left margin. There’s been some recent work with CSS to make this automatic, but that’s newer than this book and support is spotty. MB made it happen with a (iirc) custom filter inside the Pollen setup he made for this book. Wild. And beautiful.

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Re:Better typography with text-wrap pretty by flobosg on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @04:21AM (#43630001)

See also the added soft hyphens within each word for hyphenation: https://practicaltypography.com/optional-hyphens.html#:~:tex...

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Re:Better typography with text-wrap pretty by OisinMoran on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @08:42AM (#43631407)

Ironically (or not) this section (on mobile anyway) seems to hyphenate way too much, with three lines in a row and two lines in a row ending in a hyphen (5/8 total lines in the paragraph).

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