Hyphenation in Calibre Viewer

preuthier · 11-17-2022, 12:58 PM

Hello,

Does Viewer support automatic hyphenation ? So far, the texts I have seen displayed in Caliber Viewer do not have automatic hyphenation. That's a shame ! Is there something to do to enable this, or is hyphenation not implemented in Viewer? If so, support for automatic hyphenation would be a more than welcome feature.

kovidgoyal · 11-17-2022, 10:50 PM

No it doesnt. Use the Polish books tool to add soft hyphens if this important to you.

preuthier · 11-18-2022, 02:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

No it doesnt. Use the Polish books tool to add soft hyphens if this important to you.

Thank you for your reply. What are soft hyphens ? What is the Polish books tool ? Would it be possible, in the not too distant future, to improve Viewer to support automatic hyphenation like Adobe Digital Editions? I would also like to thank you for all the development of Calibre, because it is a very complete and absolutely brilliant software.

preuthier · 11-18-2022, 03:19 PM

Hello,
I found a nice plugin called "Hyphenate this !" by Saulius P. I installed it. I have no idea how it works, but it works ! Now automatic hyphenation works in Viewer. However, you have to apply "Hyphenate this" book by book if you want it to work.

BetterRed · 11-18-2022, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by preuthier

However, you have to apply "Hyphenate this" book by book if you want it to work.

Similar GUI plugins (Modify Epub, Count Pages, Extract ISBN etc) can be applied against multiple books.

BR

Comfy.n · 11-18-2022, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by preuthier

Hello,

Does Viewer support automatic hyphenation ? So far, the texts I have seen displayed in Caliber Viewer do not have automatic hyphenation. That's a shame ! Is there something to do to enable this, or is hyphenation not implemented in Viewer? If so, support for automatic hyphenation would be a more than welcome feature.

This issue got me curious so I ran the native Calibre Polish tool in one book, just to take a look:

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On first glance, I don't see much difference... Is there, perhaps, an optimization for reading in other languages, with hyphenation?

kovidgoyal · 11-19-2022, 01:10 AM

hyphenation is mostly useful in european languages with longer words, english not so much.

11-17-2022, 12:58 PM	#1
preuthier Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2022 Device: Kobo Forma	Hyphenation in Calibre Viewer Hello, Does Viewer support automatic hyphenation ? So far, the texts I have seen displayed in Caliber Viewer do not have automatic hyphenation. That's a shame ! Is there something to do to enable this, or is hyphenation not implemented in Viewer? If so, support for automatic hyphenation would be a more than welcome feature.

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11-17-2022, 10:50 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No it doesnt. Use the Polish books tool to add soft hyphens if this important to you.

11-18-2022, 03:19 PM	#4
preuthier Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2022 Device: Kobo Forma	Hello, I found a nice plugin called "Hyphenate this !" by Saulius P. I installed it. I have no idea how it works, but it works ! Now automatic hyphenation works in Viewer. However, you have to apply "Hyphenate this" book by book if you want it to work.

11-19-2022, 01:10 AM	#7
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	hyphenation is mostly useful in european languages with longer words, english not so much.

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