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Old 12-25-2008, 08:36 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Nate the great View Post
That's not true. Mobipocket splits at the emdash. (I think. I'm not entirely sure how an emdash is different from a hyphen.) For instance:

word-word-word-word-word-word-word-word-word-word-word

will appear on the page as:

word-
word-
word-
word-
word-
word-word-word-word-word-word

if 30 characters is the width of the screen.
No, that's not true. MobiPocket (the Gen3's implementation of it, at least) will break a line at a hyphen, but it will not break a line at an em-dash.
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