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Originally Posted by GJN
One minor problem that's irritating is the frequent use of hard hyphens when soft hyphens are called for. (Yes, I know that a preposition shouldn't be used to end a sentence with). It seems that such hard hyphens could easily be converted to soft ones with a simple find and replace command. Why won't the publisher bother to do this?
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First, the original typesetter of the book may have improperly used hard hyphens to break words at the end of a line.
Second, even if the source file is properly constructed, most extraction programs don't distinguish between regular hyphens and discretionary hyphens. So you usually can't do a simple search-and-replace.
Third, it's unclear if most eBook reading systems would treat discretionary hyphens properly. I should do some tests...
Dave