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Originally Posted by mattmc
@kovid, On the soft hyphens, maybe you can clear something up for me. What benefit would there be to adding those to the file itself? What if the user sets a font size that doesn't give a word a reason to break on a particular line? Then you just have a hyphen in the middle of a word...unless the rendering engine is hiding them when they're not necessary, or something, and then you haven't gained anything. I suppose they could be inserting invisible markers in the middle of words that the rendering engine uses as clues to do soft-hyphenation.
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Matt, soft hyphens, by definition, are SUPPOSED to be invisible unless they fall at the end of a line. But in early Kindles, they showed up as HARD hyphens, always visible, so you couldn't safely use them anywhere -- and the Publishing Guidelines warned against them. If Amazon is now adding them to KFX files, that would only go to Kindles that could handle them properly.
Aaron