[css-text-4] Way to only hyphenate when word is broken in “emergency situations”? #4600
Description
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-4/#hyphenation
Sometimes, the best way to handle overlong words is overflow-wrap: break-word. Unfortunately, by default it breaks a word as soon as possible, instead of the intelligent break positions of hyphens.
Setting hyphens: auto; does hyphenate breaks from overflow-wrap, but it also breaks and hyphenates words that don’t need it:
(from dassur.ma/things/when-workers/. I have to pop open devtools to disable hyphens whenever I read his blog.)
I find hyphenation difficult and distracting to read, but I appreciate their signal that a word has been broken when it’s necessary.
I would love a value like hyphens: overflow that doesn’t needlessly hyphenate, but intelligently breaks words when necessary.