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Re: For the experts: comma separated values won't wrap?

  • Subject: Re: For the experts: comma separated values won't wrap?
  • From: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:22:04 +0000 (UTC)
  • Newsgroups: alt.html
  • Organization: Bovine Aviation Enterprises
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote:

>> Put spaces after the commas:
>> Nokia 252, 282, 5/6/7100, 8200, 8800 AC
>> 
> 
> I think that's what the OP wants to avoid, or else the OP would
> have not said "For the experts".

Well, "For the experts" is the common way of telling experts not to 
bother - a pathetic attempt at making people interested in something 
that isn't interesting by its nature. In this case however the Subject 
line potentially made people interested _despite_ the attempt.

In addition to various techniques of suggesting line breaks inside a 
string, there's the approach of using spaces, which would indeed be the 
logical and orthographically correct approach. If saving space is a 
matter of life and death (though it's usually just a problem created on 
purpose, by using some fancy "layout" and "design" that squeezes 
content proper into stamp size), then you could use CSS to suggest 
reduction of inter-word spacing, e.g.
<span style="word-spacing:-0.2em">252, 282, 5/6/7100, 8200,
8800 AC</span>

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