Izlenim HTML Hyphenator


Introduction

Welcome to Izlenim HTML Hyphenator!

This soft­ware is cre­at­ed to make web pages look more beau­ti­ful. Izlenim HTML Hy­phen­ator which I will re­fer to as IHH from now and all kinds of pages will be re­ferred to as doc­u­ment. IHH can add hy­phen­a­tion marks in­to an­y doc­u­ment. This makes your page have dashes at the end of some of the lines where the word can not fit, but some part of it can fit, of course for this to hap­pen the word must have syl­la­bles where hy­phen­a­tion marks can be in­sert­ed in the first place. Not all words can be hy­phen­at­ed as they have on­ly one syl­la­ble.

The para­graphs in the doc­u­ment does­n't have to be jus­ti­fied like this help file, it can work in non jus­ti­fied para­graphs as well, but as this pro­grams pur­pose is to make pages look more pro­fes­sion­al like printed books, news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines you should hy­phen­ate on­ly para­graphs where jus­ti­fy is open.

IHH hy­phen­ates a doc­u­ment in 2 steps first it looks in its hy­phen­a­tion word list. This list con­tains o­ver one­hun­dered and six­ty thou­sand words with their hy­phen­a­tion marks added. Af­ter this step if the word could not be found in the hy­phen­a­tion list, it ap­plies an al­go­rithm called TEX to the word, this is a pat­tern al­go­rithm where o­ver 5000 pat­ters of hy­phen­a­tion are searched with­in the word.

A hy­phen­ated doc­u­ment will not look as good as a news­pa­per, the rea­son is cur­rent­ly be­yond what html of­fers. Mi­crosoft In­ter­net Ex­plor­er and newer ver­sions of Netscape and Op­er­a when jus­ti­fying a par­a­graph in­creases the space be­tween the words, but in pro­fes­sion­al type­set­ting this space can be de­creased in some lines (this is like tak­ing 1 pix­el a­way from each space and mak­ing room for one or two more let­ters at the end). E­ven the space be­tween each let­ter can change in printed type­set­ting. Nev­er­the­less IHH does a won­der­ful job on 2-3 col­umn web pages as well as pages with im­ages aliened to the left, right or cen­ter in­side the para­graphs. As you can see in this file that your are read­ing now.

How Does Izlenim HTML Hy­phen­ator Work?

Start­ing from Mi­crosoft In­ter­net Ex­plor­er 4.0 there was in­tro­duced the ­ code. This code is used to tell MSIE that it can put a hy­phen­a­tion mark at that pos­tion in­side the word. This code al­so works for Op­er­a and Netscape as it is a HTML Stand­ard.

Izlenim HTML Hy­phen­ator adds the ­ eve­ry­where it can with­in a word this al­lows the doc­u­ment to be hy­phen­ated e­ven if the font size, font type or the screen res­o­lu­tion is dif­fer­ent on the tar­get com­put­er.

For how to use IHH please look at the next col­umn. It is ver­y sim­ple. I hope you'll en­joy mak­ing your pages look more beau­ti­ful.

How To Use Izlenim HTML Hyphenator

When you run the program for the first time it will create an index of the hyphenation dictionary. This index takes aronud 20MB and is used to quiken the search in the 160000 words hyphenation dictionary. After the startup screen ends you'll face the program itself. If for some reason your wordlist should be destroyed you can recreate it from the file menu.

Most parts of the program are similar to any editor, so i wont go into those parts as you can try yourself, and all buttons have hints if you should find the images different than what you are used to. Lets begin hyphenating a document.

  • First step is to open it, either by using the toolbar or menu open the file you wish to hyphenate.

  • Now that the file is open you can browse throug it in the editor. You can click on preview icon to open it as it is being displayed. Non of the changes you make will be effective until you save your file.

  • Hyphenation can be done in two ways:
      1- Select the text you wish to hyphenate then pressing the hyphenate button in the toolbar.
      2- Choose hyphenate all from File menu.

    For most i will recomend using the 1st way. As this gives more control of what you wish to hyphenate.

  • To undo any hyphenation you can etiher delete all the ­ codes inserted by IHH (the hard way) or select the whole docmunet and click on Hyphenate again (the easy way), so if any part of the selected text contain one or more ­ codes IHH just removes them all and restors the document or selection to the unhyphenated state.

  • You can preview your work at any moment, and experiment of how hyphenation works by resezing the MSIE window.

  • A tip is to always have the paragraph justified either do this using a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor or adding the ALIGN=JUSTIFY into your <P> so make it become <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY> also the tag <DIV ALIGN=JUSTIFY> will work.

  • To prevent accidentaly overwriting any document the save function will always promot with the save as dialog. Here you can decide if you wish to write over the existing file or save it with a new name.

    Well this is all you need to get your web pages look more beatifull. I hope you will like this shareware product and find it usefull. If you like it you can order the full version that doesnt stop working after 30 days for just 19.95 USD!! Click on Buy Izlenim HTML Hyphenator in the help menu while you are online. This will open in the secure order system Share-IT for shareware authors in your default browser.

    -EOH-

  • Ekim E. YARDIMLI
    Istanbul, 2003