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Okay, here's an interesting conundrum that I've run into, re hyphenation...
My book, as I've described it here before, is in two parts: the first half is in regular, modern English, and the second half is the exact same text but transliterated into late-Middle English (and typeset in these "olde" fonts, as we've been discussing, of course).
Now, I can't stand the auto-hyphenation "feature" because it adds far, far too many broken words at the ends of lines, and so what I did for my modern text is to have it turned off in my CSS throughout the entire text (that modern part) and then I selectively chose words for which I would allow it (and I did this by viewing the text at various font sizes in order to see where the issues would be, and then chose words accordingly).
[Note: as I'm writing this, I realized that ADE seems to ignore this, and allows hyphenation anyway, despite my saying not to in my CSS -- but it does work just fine in iBooks, at least.]
I wish I could do the exact same thing with my "olde" text, but it doesn't seem that I can! The problem, I can only assume, is that none of the longer, "problematic" words simply aren't in the built-in English dictionary (for example, "diſſapoyntmends", etc.), and the software just has no idea where/how to break the words -- and so it doesn't.
One alternative that I did try -- instead of allowing hyphenation on certain words -- is to use the method, but that doesn't seem to work either (neither in iBooks nor ADE), it's just simply ignored.
Anyone have another solution, for either selectively allowing hyphenation on certain words, or else to insert something similar to within the words?
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