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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
I know that hyphenating words (I think that's what you mean by "cutting words") could deal with some of the poor line breaks that occur when flowing the text, both with and without full justification. But I find it more readable to not hyphenate at all. Also, it saves me from having to go through my ebooks and rehyphenate the text it if I decide to reformat them (such as to a smaller font or a different typeface).
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I'm used to programs that do it automatically, although I've only seen that in French, I'm realising now. I guess because French has longer words as well as more logical rules for hyphenating, such programs are both more needed and easier to make.
Basically the program decides if it's better to leave a word whole or to cut it, and where to cut it (usually between double consonants, always between syllables).
Since in French one syllable doesn't have any influence on how the previous or next one are pronounced, cutting between syllables doesn't make it harder to read at all.
I'm guessing this isn't supported in lrf though. I know rtf and doc files support it in French though, but all my programs are in English now and I can't find the option to do that anywhere.
I've also been having trouble with special spaces, the type that can't be cut.
For instance in French, double punctuation has one space before and one space after (double punctuation is ";" ":" "?" "!" and French quotation marks). The space before (or after, for opening French quotation marks) cannot be cut (it's a specific one different from a regular space) and needs to be linked to the word before (after) it.
This isn't supported in lrf so you sometimes end up with these symbols at the beginning of a line, which can be very annoying.
It is however supported in doc and rtf as a special symbol, but I'd have to see if these special symbols are recognised on the reader.
If they are, I might end up switching to rtf for my favourite format.