Kyle Barrow wrote:
> Wrapping mid-word is a problem inherent with a system built
> for Japanese
> characters but can easily be avoided with a little bit of
> server-side magic.
I don't necessarily agree that wrapping mid-word is a problem that needs to
be fixed. Within a day or so of use, most people I have talked to agree that
reading English i-mode content wrapped mid-word is easier than reading text
that has been formatted with fixed line breaks. Forcing line breaks often
results in only 2 or 3 words per line, and long passages of text are hard to
read and take up a huge amount of vertical space. Moreover, with the lack of
bold or size formatting for text, every line seems to be a headline.
People evidently do a good job of putting together the fragments of words
together from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. This is
probably very similar to readability using hyphenation. Look at the
newspaper or magazine on your desk; most people don't notice hyphenation, it
doesn't interfere with readability, and is a good use of space.
I'd like to do some formal research on this; anyone with more information or
a different opinion, please let me know.
Paul
] paul wallace, ph.d.
] senior information architect
S P I K E C y b e r W o r k s
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Received on Fri Dec 8 06:31:00 2000