[Tagging] Nonbreakable spaces in name tags

Richard ricoz.osm at gmail.com
Fri Jan 26 22:04:32 UTC 2018


On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 03:48:42PM +0100, Matej Lieskovský wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> Several Slavic languages have rather formal rules about line breaks.

the problem is much broader, sooner or later OSM rendering will hit word 
splitting.

> PS: The rules are formal enough that there exists a 1997 program
> "Vlna" ("Tilde"), that can add nonbreakable spaces to TeX source files
> and is commonly used for important documents.

probably not all OSM languaes have such tools and even if they have it can 
be tricky to determine which language rules to apply.

I would think..
* if someone wants to use nonbreakable spaces he should be allowed to do 
  so and tools should tolerate it (not necessarilly understand but not 
  break)
* if someone wants to use explicit word-split marks/soft-hyphens 
  this should be somehow allowed too.

Otherwise the software should try to do its best and apply heuristics to avoid 
splitting lines in wrong places.
Not splitting 1000 034 should be obvious, roman numbers as well. Prefer not 
splitting around "lonely" characters. 
The rendering software can also compare texts with name tags and prefer not 
to split names at all.

Richard



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