[[!tag wishlist]] I recently found [Hyphenator](http://code.google.com/p/hyphenator/) which is quite cool ... but it should be possible to implement this functionality within ikiwiki and not rely on javascript and the client. A Perl implementation of the algorithm exists in [[!cpan TeX::Hyphen]]. > I'd be inclined to say that Javascript run in the client is a better > place to do hyphenation: this is the sort of non-essential, > progressive-enhancement thing that JS is perfect for. If you did it > at the server side, to cope with browser windows of different sizes > you'd have to serve HTML sprinkled with soft-hyphen entities at > every possible hyphenation point, like > > pro­gress­ive en­hance­ment > > which is nearly twice the byte-count and might stop > search engines from indexing your site correctly. > > A browser that supports Javascript probably also supports > soft-hyphen marks, but I doubt all non-JS browsers support them > correctly. > > It might be good to have a plugin to insert a reference to the > hyphenation JS into the ``, or a general way to enable > this sort of thing without writing a plugin or changing your > `page.tmpl`, though. Perhaps we should have a `local.js` > alongside `local.css`? :-) > > --[[smcv]]