11-30-2014, 03:05 AM | #16 |
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Not only MS Word... I use Total Commander for everyday work (best money ever spent on a piece of software), and I just tried to open an html of a soft-hypenated book with its small internal listener. The hypens are visible and marked by a dash.
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Although either one could afford more than Kovid to spend time fixing Qt, in order to polish tiny details of the UI. |
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11-30-2014, 11:20 AM | #19 |
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@eschwartz: Any idea if QT is also to blame for both Sigil and Calibre Editor search/replace fields (or into html code itself) not excepting that same soft hyphen character when I input it using Autohotkey's hotkey/hotstring? Or even using Alt+0173 shortcut.
I know I could use: "Insert special character"> Shy, but that is not as convenient. Easiest workaround so far for me is to open Notepad via Autohotkey shortcut, input special character via hotstring (.sh for soft hyphen, .mdash for — etc), and then select and copy character from Notepad to Calibre/Sigil search or code view. Of the ones that I regularly use "Shy" is so far the first one that both editors ignore. Because hyphenated footnotes/endnotes text looks awful in PW1 & PW2 pop out window (because of forced left alignment) usually after using HyphenateThis plugin I manually remove soft hyphens using search/replace just for endnotes html file. Last edited by shamanNS; 11-30-2014 at 11:24 AM. |
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At least in calibre, I just type the entity and have it autoconvert. That works for the HTML code and you can paste into the search field.
I have never had problems with alt codes, which makes sense as it is part of the keyboard/OS system support and would anyway tend to be well integrated. I do not know why AutoHotKey, wouldn't work, as I have never used it. |
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Other alt codes (say for single curly quotes, ‘) work inside Calibre Editor's code view and search field. Also "typing" the same Alt code via Autohotkey works in all other programs except Calibre & Sigil which both use QT. So far only U+00AD/Alt+0173 doesn't work. For html code workaround is typing the entity * but for Search field we still must use copy/paste.
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Well, I definitely don't know why ­ ; specifically would spaz out.
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12-01-2014, 08:44 AM | #23 | |
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And not only for editing, it prevents readers from using their device's/app's search function effectively on the finished product. My advice would be to do all editing/searching/replacing you deem necessary before adding the soft hyphens (with "Hyphenate This" or otherwise) for your personal viewing pleasure. And to allow other readers the chance to do the very same thing, by never running "Hyphenate This" on an ebook that's going into production. Because ... |
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That is: I searched for "correre", it found "correvano", "correva", "correndo", "corriamo", "corre", all verbal form for the verb "correre". Same for the noun "strano", it found also the adverb "stranamente". Which is - in fact - "strano". But it seems not to break device search functions completely, at least. |
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Sorry...
Breaks most standard epub ereader search functions. But I would still not recommend using "Hyphenate This" on a production ebook. Some may value an accurate search function more than they mind a little white-space here and there. Personal use?... knock yourself out. But if I bought an ebook that was littered with invisible soft-hyphens (or their entity equivalent), I'd probably be asking for a refund. |
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So, it seems they are two well separated worlds. In any case, no worries: I'm not a publisher, just a reader. It's that I value, for the pleasure of reading, much much much more a well balanced "written page" that I "use" 99.9% of the time while using my reader, than a search function that I use only sometimes, to say the least. But that's just me. I agree that the approach of demanding to an ebook reader to be able to hypenate itself makes much more sense. |
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