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> I wasn't clear on one fact: the column of text is an image, not text.
That
> in itself is a problem as well--no way to make the text larger.
An image? An image?? I was wondering how this text ended up being
hyphenated and why the column was a fixed width. I never would have
guessed it was an image.
Hyphenation is bad. Fixed-width columns are bad. But those pale in
comparison to the awfulness of using an image of a column of text.
Don't waste your time gathering evidence about hyphenation. Replace that
image with real text that wraps (in a column that resizes with the
window), and the hyphenation issue will silently go away.
IMHO, that is.
Richard
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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