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Old 11-17-2010, 10:01 AM   #5
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calibre uses a javascript library for hyphenation, so it cannot be used directly in the conversion. And as ldolse said, support for soft hyphens is rather spotty in reading systems.

Incidentally the calibre viewer's hyphenation will be fixed in the next release.
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