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Old 11-24-2020, 01:52 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Leonatus View Post
Yes, you are all completely right! thank you for your help!
I wouldn't have thought that the epub contained soft hyphens, for I had built the epub myself, and, of course, without hyphens. But as the book lies for a considerable time in my file system, it might well be that once upon a time I had re-saved it from Calibre's file location (with soft hyphens). I might just have forgotten.
Anyway: @DiapDealer: I'm comprehensive for anglophone users to "hate these things". But the german language is different: Imagine a word like "Dampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft" - my finger nails are warping at writing this - without hyphenation on an e-bool reader! That's to ugly by far. Thus, I estimate the HypenateThis! plugin very much, as its hyphenation results for the german language are in about 85 % correct.
But your hints to detect soft hyphens in Sigil are really valuable to me in the future, as this issue occurs not so rarely.
Thank you again!
Oh, don't get me wrong. I know there's a valid use for them. But way too many English speaking folk choose to litter their text with them in a hackish attempt to simulate hyphenation in rendering engines that don't natively support it. THAT'S what I hate. The pollution of markup with invisible hyphens in every single word over one syllable.

People should buy readers that natively support hyphenation if they read content that would suffer without it (and it matters greatly to them). Never been a big fan of content providers deciding for readers what should be important to them.

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