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Originally Posted by johnamy

I've come on here because I use Sigil to create my ebooks. One of my clients has asked for hyphenation on his book. I always thought this was automatic. I've searched all over the place to find an answer to this but totally confused...

As DiapDealer said, hyphenation is completely dependent on the device/renderer the person reading is using.

Older devices typically don't have automatic hyphenation, while newer devices typically have a user-controlled preference.

The only semi-reliable thing you can do is use CSS to DISABLE hyphens in things like headings:

h1 {
	-epub-hyphens: none;
	-webkit-hyphens: none;
	-ms-hyphens: none;
	hyphens: none;
	adobe-hyphenate: none;
}

but I wouldn't really use that either and just leave all hyphenation up to the reader. (Imagine using a HUGE FONT on a small device [cell phone]).

Originally Posted by HarryT

The Hyphenate This! plugin for Calibre will perhaps do the trick.

While this might be okay for personal usage, I wouldn't recommend this AT ALL for a book that would be released to the public (ESPECIALLY for sale).

What the plugin does is inserts soft hyphen characters throughout the book. While this might look okay on the surface, it causes serious issues underneath.

Here is just one of the other soft hyphen topics I remember:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...37#post2726037

• If a device doesn't support soft hyphens, you get ? all over your book.
• It can interfere with search
• It can interfere with dictionary lookup
• It can get in the way of the automatic hyphenation
• Different languages may hyphenate differently
  • See one my posts with examples of US/UK hyphenation.
• It could create crud when you copy/paste outside of the book, or if you converted to a different format
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