Where to shy-phenate?

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For display purposes (especially relevant for big text on small devices), we have the ability to hint (­) to the browser where to place a hyphen if the line needs to be broken.

In a pali word such as kāma­sukha­llik­ānuyoga (where we have a double consonant, in this case ll ), should I be hinting something like this:

option 1:
kāma-­sukha-­llik-­ānuyoga

or like this

option 2
kāma-­sukha­l-lik-­ānuyoga

or something else?

My preference up until now has been option 2, but I’m doubting myself.

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Hi @stu. I try and go by the way syllables are spoken so something like option 2.5

kāma-­sukha­l-lik-­ānu-yoga

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Thanks Tom. That looks good

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There’s a GitHub proposal for alias of languages in CSS, made by yours truly to address this problem in browsers. So we could say, this text is in pali but hyphenate as if it were Latin. Thumbs up would help!

Fun fact, native manuscripts have no real pattern for this, they just break at the end of the line.

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