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Originally Posted by anacreon
Thank you for the info. I gather that the maintainer applied your corrections, but did he correct the high hyphen thing? If not, I'll keep your "Caudey" adjusted version.
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Caudex 1.06 has the corrections for the problems that made the KePub reader select the wrong font styles, and also a minor adjustment to the kerning that made the space too small after a word ending with a single right quote (most noticable in books with British-style punctuation.)
But the high hyphen isn't really a fault with the font, so it wasn't changed. I've edited my
post #346 to add an alternative version based on Caudex 1.06 but with the hyphen-minus replaced by a hyphen.
The real problem is that the hyhen-minus is a character that is supposed to be usable as both a hyphen and a minus sign, but in practice the height of these two characters are not always compatible (minus should match plus, while hyphen should match en-dash, em-dash, etc.) so I think the font just has to choose between making the minus sign too low or the hyphen too high. The real solution would be for publishers to avoid using hyphen-minus as a hyphen, but I doubt that will ever happen.
From my own point of view it is better to make hyphen-minus to be a hyphen, because the books I read have thousands of hyhens (when including automatic hyphens added to break lines) and often no minus signs at all.
One new thing I discovered is that the automatic hyphens added by the KePub reader are hyphen, while the ones added by the ePub reader are hyphen-minus. That means that in a font like this where the hyphen-minus is a minus sign, the automatic hyphens in KePub will look different to the hard hyphens used by the publisher, but in the ePub reader they will look the same. With the alt-hyphen font they will look the same in both KePub and ePub.