Guide
German typography
brevier hyphenates German and English text and keeps numbers and their units on one line. You write nothing for it.
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Hyphenation
Before the page is laid out, brevier marks the places where a word may
break. It reads the language from the lang attribute of the text. Text
with no lang counts as German.
<html lang="de">German compound words break between their parts first. So Versicherungs-bedingungen breaks at the joint, not in the middle of a part. English text uses English rules.
brevier turns off the engine's own hyphenation, so a word can only break where brevier allowed it.
Non-breaking spaces
Some pairs must never be split across two lines. brevier puts a non-breaking space between them:
| Case | Example |
|---|---|
| Section mark and number | § 5, §§ 10 |
| Amount and euro sign | 1.234,50 € |
| Abbreviation | z. B. |
| Page reference | S. 3 |
| IBAN groups | DE89 3704 0044 0532 0130 00 |
| Phone numbers | +49 711 1234567, 0711 1234567 |
brevier leaves code, links and e-mail addresses alone.
To see where brevier put soft hyphens, render with --debug and open the
.debug.html file. Each allowed break shows as ­.