About fix­ing the menu to make long words wrap, last week­end I start­ed with a Perl mod­ule that will take care of that. There was al­ready TeX::Hyphen, and I com­bined that with HTML::TreeBuilder to end up with some­thing that will take a bunch of HTML and in­sert soft hy­phens at the right places. It can be used to just en­able the brows­er to break long words in nar­row lay­out, but it can also be used to just in­sert all the pos­si­ble soft hy­phens so you would get a much less ragged text lay­out.

There are JavaScript so­lu­tions for this (as fea­tured on Ham­burg Uni), but down­load­ing a 68kB pat­tern file for just a sin­gle lan­guage seems a bit much for such a pur­pose. Not the down­load (al­though I don't see a serv­er side so­lu­tion adding 68kB of ­ to a page like that), but pars­ing it all and do­ing it real time might make the client side ex­pe­ri­ence a bit slug­gish at times.