Thread: Does hyphenation work or not?
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Old 07-17-2020, 11:04 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by jackie_w View Post
Yes, you did. It can be seen in kepubs. For example, if you have included this CSS in your kepub
Code:
    -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 2;
    -webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 3;
you may see something like this:
Code:
Strange hyphenati-
on.
For reasons best known to whoever wrote the kepub rendering app the punctuation seems to count as one of the characters.

For this reason I never have -webkit-hyphenate-limit-after set to anything less than 3.
That's annoying and makes me happy with my ragged-right preference

The interesting thing is that the punctuation probably should be considered when deciding to split the word, but, it shouldn't be included when deciding where to put the split. I wonder if this is one of those cases where the programmer/designer/whoever decided to fix it later when they had time to think about it properly and that time has never arrived.
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