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Originally Posted by KevinH
I disagree.
It can easily be used as an output plugin so that people with devices that do understand soft hyphens have access to them, it could be used for as part of the kindle gen output process if someone so desired. It is just a plugin. No one forces you to use it.
FWIW - JSWolf, you are fighting a losing battle for "what works or doesn't" in your particular e-reader of choice. The draft for epub 3.1 is out and they are moving to allow pure html5 as used in a browser to have equal footing to to xhtml for epub3.1 publications.
This allows future readers to simply use open web technologies based on browser engines (Gecko, Webkit, Blink, etc). So if soft hyphens work in most browsers now, they will most likely work for most newer e-readers coming down the rode.
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One really good reason not to have this plugin is that Sigil does not work with soft-hyphens. It thinks words with soft-hyphens are not spelled correctly. Also, you cannot search. So having an ePub with soft-hyphens in Sigil just won't work well.
ePub 3.1 is not yet developed. It doesn't exist. Sigil doesn't handle ePub 3.1. So until it's a reality and Sigil works with ePub with soft-hyphens, this plugin doesn't need to be written. People will use it and it will cause all kinds of problems where those problems don't need to be.