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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Exactly.
99% of the time, it's Soft Hyphens:
- Odd/phantom hyphenation?
- Red squigglies in correctly spelled words?
- Blank squares (or question marks) appearing randomly in your words?
- Search not working correctly?
Soft hyphens! |
Hi! Now I'm 99% sure that the problem is my computer, as I've said I checked the epub in Sigil on another computer and it was working fine, and lately I've been having problems with other software on my Mac, so I think there may be something bad with it. This weekend I will reinstall MacOs to check it up.
However, if the problem were the soft hyphens, shouldn't I see them in the code, with the "shy" entity or similar? My code is clean, I have no undesired entities there.
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Can you open the book in Sigil and press Tools > Reports > Characters in HTML Files:
Attachment 190008
1. Does your EPUB have the "soft hyphen" listed anywhere?
2. Does it have any other hyphen-like characters?
- – (U+2013) = EN DASH
- — (U+2014) = EM DASH
- − (U+2212) = MINUS SIGN
or (odd) hyphen characters?
- ‐ (U+2010) = HYPHEN
- ‑ (U+2011) = NON-BREAKING HYPHEN
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I had already checked this and there's nothing strange in the report, just one (U+2013) = EN DASH that is ok as it's used.
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
There's no need to specify hyphens, unless you overwrote it someplace else.
(Best to just strip all CSS hyphens completely, then leave it up to the device/reader.)
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But if I have the text justified (as the customer requires), it is not a better idea to set hyphening on as default to avoid some lines being too opened?
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Don't do that in ebooks. It's a poor idea.
Remember, readers can be reading on HUGE FONTS on very skinny/small devices (think cellphone). Disabling hyphenation only gets in the way.
The best example is: "Acknowledgments".
Imagine that heading, unbroken, in huge font, on a cellphone.
For more info, see the great 2018 article: EPUBSecrets.org: "User Experience: What Works, and How?" |
Yes, I'm aware of that, that's why I keep heading's font not to big and I also check the epubs on a very narrow screen (300px wide) to make sure there are no problem with headings unbroken. I think the chances of somebody having a problem like that as I design the epubs are so small that don't make up for the ugliness of finding broken headings for almost every user. But I certainly will think about it.
Thanks!