Thread: Better Hyphenation
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Old 12-15-2016, 05:38 PM   #61
davidfor
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
Thanks man! I was afraid I'd wind up with two copies.

Incidentally, in the Kobo TouchExtended settings, there was the box to hyphenate files and then there was a separate box to remove hyphenation. There may be good and valid reasons to have two seemingly contradictory boxes. But it is a confusing UI choice. At the very least, it might be a good idea to place both boxes side by side.
They do two very different and not quite contradictory things.

The turn off option add things to the stylesheet to disable hyhpenation. There are several ways to do this depending on the renderer and the driver adds most of them.

The hyphenate option actually does the hyphenation in the book. It runs through the book and adds soft hyphen character in all the appropriate places. When the book is displayed, these are used instead of the hyphenation dictionary.

I have no idea how these two would interact, but, if you do the latter, it makes sense to turn the hyphenation engine off in the ereader so it doesn't try to do it twice.

Edit: I really should check things before I open my mouth.

As jackie_w pointed out, the two options are really about which of two hyphenation relate stylesheets to add: one to force the hypnation off, the other to force it on. And the reason for the two options like this is that the driver configuration could only support checkboxes and text fields. Hence a two checkboxes to turn on opposite functions. With my changes to the driver configuration earlier in the year, this could be changed to more sensible looking options if someone wants to do the work.
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