nonbreaking space with hyphen mystery

ionavideo · 06-24-2015, 07:22 AM

I was putting nbsp nonbreaking spaces between numbers and measures, like 12 months and 6 kilometers and whatever -- 24 hours, 30 days...

When I looked at the Nook test file, some nonbreaking spaces worked to keep the number and its measure together... and some had a hyphen between the figure and the measure word!

It seems that if the measure word is one syllable, it will put a hyphen in. So 30 days is getting a hyphen at the end of a line, while 16 kilometers is okay and pushes over to the next line (sort of) with a hyphen in the word.

Anyone familiar with this?

Turtle91 · 06-24-2015, 12:42 PM

That sounds like the Nook's hyphenation algorithm at work rather than an epub problem. Can you turn off the hyphenation in your Nook??

ionavideo · 06-24-2015, 06:26 PM

Thanks for the suggestion. I looked on the Nook (it's old, V1.1.5) and I do not see anything to allow you to turn off hyphenation. There are several old articles on the Internet about turning off hyphenation with CSS file statements, but I don't want to go there.

Valor and discretion: I'm just not putting in the nbsp. Only copy editor purists would know...

06-24-2015, 07:22 AM	#1
ionavideo Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2015 Device: Nook and iPhone	nonbreaking space with hyphen mystery I was putting nbsp nonbreaking spaces between numbers and measures, like 12 months and 6 kilometers and whatever -- 24 hours, 30 days... When I looked at the Nook test file, some nonbreaking spaces worked to keep the number and its measure together... and some had a hyphen between the figure and the measure word! It seems that if the measure word is one syllable, it will put a hyphen in. So 30 days is getting a hyphen at the end of a line, while 16 kilometers is okay and pushes over to the next line (sort of) with a hyphen in the word. Anyone familiar with this?

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06-24-2015, 12:42 PM	#2
Turtle91 A Hairy Wizard Posts: 3,347 Karma: 20171571 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Charleston, SC today Device: iPhone 15/11/X/6/iPad 1,2,Air & Air Pro/Surface Pro/Kindle PW & Fire	That sounds like the Nook's hyphenation algorithm at work rather than an epub problem. Can you turn off the hyphenation in your Nook??

06-24-2015, 06:26 PM	#3
ionavideo Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2015 Device: Nook and iPhone	Thanks for the suggestion. I looked on the Nook (it's old, V1.1.5) and I do not see anything to allow you to turn off hyphenation. There are several old articles on the Internet about turning off hyphenation with CSS file statements, but I don't want to go there. Valor and discretion: I'm just not putting in the nbsp. Only copy editor purists would know...

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