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Old 09-20-2009, 01:36 PM   #1
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Calibre deletes soft Hyphens in Epub ?

I don't know if this is a bug or a feature, or if I just have a setting in calibre wrong.

This is my problem: I got a html file that is full of long words. I want to add hyphonation for this words.

I know their are 3 different codes for soft hyphens: ­ ­ and ­

Well, I put this codes into different words in the html file. Everything looks good in Firefox. So I converted the html file into an epub file, with Calibre. Strangely, the hyphenations didn't show up on my Bebook.

So I opened the epub (by renaming it to zip) and looked at the html file inside. And to my surprise, all the soft hyphens have been gone. How can this be ? Other html codes like umlauts work fine. So how does it come that the soft hyphenations are gone ? Is there something wrong with Calibre or my settings ? I tried it with and without the "no text justification" setting. (I thought this might solve the problem, but it didn't)

Oh and by the way: I heard that there would be an easier way for hyphenation ? Like a database on your ebook reader where you can enter the words and their correct hyphenations. (I think I heard something like this will come with CSS3 - does the Bebook support this ?)

Thanks for your help
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