Hi DiapDealer,
FWIW ... I agree completely. But a sizeable portion of Sigil users are simply ebook lovers who want to modify their ebooks to work and play well with their particular device. In that setting, a plugin like this might prove useful to people. I am not advocating for total use of soft hyphens by any publisher. Decent reading systems should have their own hyphenation software the user could turn on or off and not require the text to come "pre-hyphenated" with soft hyphens everyplace. Their internal hyphenator should do the trick only when an if a long word ends up on a boundary when reflowing the document.
Take care,
KevinH
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
For the record: I have no objection to a plugin like this existing, or users who know the ramifications of its use utilizing it. I was just voicing my personal opinion that I wouldn't want to see book- sellers using it to force hyphenation on readers who may not be able to override it. I can't stop them from doing so, of course, but I just don't like things used in ebook creation that takes choices away from end-users (or foils a feature of their chosen device/app that that prefer).
So write one, post one, use it, or don't--no sweat off my back. But ask me if I think book-sellers should pollute markup with a bajilion soft-hyphens just to "game" a particular device/platform, and you have my answer.  |