[Prestidigitweeze]

I tried to scan the posts in this thread to make sure this isn't redundant; apologies if it is.

To the person who complained of missing hyphens in an ebook:

If the dropped hyphen issue has nothing to do with OCR, then the culprit might be non-breaking hyphens in a Word doc that were pasted as raw text or converted in a way that doesn't retain that special character.

To those who find that dropped hyphens are an issue in self-publishing:

Before you convert a Word document to plain text and restyle it -- or copy text from another document and paste it into Word using the Paste Special command -- it's best to search for all non-breaking hyphens and replace them with hard hyphens. I try to do that with problematic characters generally.

Certain Open Office plugins have fun options for retaining quirky formatting in Word, but I try never to use them. What they retain in elaborate book design transposition, they lose in doc. integrity. If a manuscript in Word isn't created with consistent and minimal styles throughout, then I try to recreate the desirable aspects of its design in Sigil by starting with a stripped-down version of the text as opposed to simply saving the original doc. in html and opening it.