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Old 03-28-2010, 02:42 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by roger64 View Post
You can do that with OpenOffice on any platform, including the dark side:

You can copy/paste one of the soft hyphens into the Find & Replace "Search for" field, or you can set "Options/Regular expressions: ON" and enter \x00AD in place of the soft hyphen.

or

http://bugs.calibre-ebook.com/ticket/1137
The problem with the Calibre approach (converting ePub to ePub should remove the soft hyphens) is that I get weird line spacing problems when I do it. (Adjacent lines overlap; manually increasing line spacing doesn't help.)
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