Soft Hyphens Deleted When Opened in Book View

rcgordon · 06-15-2010, 01:51 AM

As soon as a text element in my epub is rendered in Sigil's Book View, it gets rewritten and sometimes irrerovcably altered. For instance, I had added a large number of soft hyphens (&shy

into a document, and they were all removed from the document.
Sigil 0.2 on OS X 10.5.8

Valloric · 06-15-2010, 05:59 AM

They're not removed, just "rendered" as actual (invisible) soft hyphens instead of entities. They're still there.

There's an issue on the tracker for replacing problematic characters back into entities.

rcgordon · 06-15-2010, 03:10 PM

Thanks for the clarification.

pietvo · 06-15-2010, 04:28 PM

Maybe there should be an option to make the soft hyphens (and probably other things like non-breaking spaces too) visible. And should there not be a real hyphen at the end of a line in book view when a word is broken at a soft hyphen?

I have no idea if Webkit can do this kind of thing, however, so it may actually be very difficult to do.

Valloric · 06-16-2010, 07:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pietvo

I have no idea if Webkit can do this kind of thing, however, so it may actually be very difficult to do.

It can't, and yes, automatic hyphenation is extremely difficult to do.

06-15-2010, 01:51 AM	#1
rcgordon Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: iPad	Soft Hyphens Deleted by Sigil When Opened in Book View As soon as a text element in my epub is rendered in Sigil's Book View, it gets rewritten and sometimes irrerovcably altered. For instance, I had added a large number of soft hyphens (&shy into a document, and they were all removed from the document. Sigil 0.2 on OS X 10.5.8 Last edited by rcgordon; 06-15-2010 at 02:00 AM.

06-15-2010, 05:59 AM	#2
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06-15-2010, 03:10 PM	#3
rcgordon Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: iPad	Thanks for the clarification.

06-15-2010, 04:28 PM	#4
pietvo Reader Posts: 500 Karma: 8718 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Cochabamba, BO Device: Onyx Boox 60, iPod Touch	Maybe there should be an option to make the soft hyphens (and probably other things like non-breaking spaces too) visible. And should there not be a real hyphen at the end of a line in book view when a word is broken at a soft hyphen? I have no idea if Webkit can do this kind of thing, however, so it may actually be very difficult to do.


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