Removing soft hypens

paulpeer · 03-21-2010, 05:51 PM

Is there a way to remove all soft hyphens from an ePub using Sigil?

I'm not talking about the HTML soft hyphen "& shy ;" or "& #8209 ;" (see issue 186), but of the real unicode soft hyphen "0xad", which you cannot see in the book view nor in the code view.

The Sigil FAQ tells us "just remove the soft hyphens", but how to handle this?

st_albert · 03-21-2010, 10:12 PM

OK, dumb question: Is there not a search & replace option or syntax that will let you search for hex codes?

paulpeer · 03-22-2010, 02:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by st_albert

OK, dumb question

If I had found an hex search and replace, I hadn't asked my dumb question in the first place

Jellby · 03-22-2010, 06:47 AM

Copy&paste the soft hyphen from the character map application?

Valloric · 03-22-2010, 12:21 PM

What Jellby said.

paulpeer · 03-23-2010, 09:08 AM

OK. This seems to work. But I feel pretty unsure when I have to search a thing I don't see (the soft hyphen) and replace it by another thing I don't see ... I've done the job now in my usual editor Unired, which does show the soft hyphens.

DrMoze · 03-24-2010, 01:27 AM

OK, I have this same problem (soft hyphens in ePub showing up as '?'s on my Reader). I don't see them even in Code View.

So, what is this "character map application" that I can copy the soft hyphen from?I don't see it anywhere in Sigil. And do I just do a global replace of that character with nothing?

Thx!

Jellby · 03-24-2010, 05:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrMoze

So, what is this "character map application" that I can copy the soft hyphen from?I don't see it anywhere in Sigil. And do I just do a global replace of that character with nothing?

It should be in your OS. In Windows it's probably in the Accessories section of your Start menu. See here. The soft hyphen is, I believe, in position 173 (decimal) or AD (hexadecimal).

Jellby · 03-24-2010, 05:54 AM

I've created issue 316.

roger64 · 03-24-2010, 06:07 AM

You can do that with OpenOffice on any platform, including the dark side:

You can copy/paste one of the soft hyphens into the Find & Replace "Search for" field, or you can set "Options/Regular expressions: ON" and enter \x00AD in place of the soft hyphen.

or

http://bugs.calibre-ebook.com/ticket/1137

DrMoze · 03-28-2010, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by roger64

You can do that with OpenOffice on any platform, including the dark side:

You can copy/paste one of the soft hyphens into the Find & Replace "Search for" field, or you can set "Options/Regular expressions: ON" and enter \x00AD in place of the soft hyphen.

or

http://bugs.calibre-ebook.com/ticket/1137

The problem with the Calibre approach (converting ePub to ePub should remove the soft hyphens) is that I get weird line spacing problems when I do it. (Adjacent lines overlap; manually increasing line spacing doesn't help.)

03-21-2010, 05:51 PM	#1
paulpeer Zealot Posts: 147 Karma: 56 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Antwerpen Device: iPhone, Sony PRS-505, EPUBreader	Removing soft hypens Is there a way to remove all soft hyphens from an ePub using Sigil? I'm not talking about the HTML soft hyphen "& shy ;" or "& #8209 ;" (see issue 186), but of the real unicode soft hyphen "0xad", which you cannot see in the book view nor in the code view. The Sigil FAQ tells us "just remove the soft hyphens", but how to handle this?

03-24-2010, 06:07 AM	#10
roger64 Wizard Posts: 2,620 Karma: 3000161 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kindle PW3 (wifi)	You can do that with OpenOffice on any platform, including the dark side: You can copy/paste one of the soft hyphens into the Find & Replace "Search for" field, or you can set "Options/Regular expressions: ON" and enter \x00AD in place of the soft hyphen. or http://bugs.calibre-ebook.com/ticket/1137 Last edited by roger64; 03-24-2010 at 07:29 AM.

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03-21-2010, 10:12 PM	#2
st_albert Guru Posts: 697 Karma: 150000 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: none	OK, dumb question: Is there not a search & replace option or syntax that will let you search for hex codes?

03-22-2010, 06:47 AM	#4
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,542 Karma: 19001583 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	Copy&paste the soft hyphen from the character map application?

03-22-2010, 12:21 PM	#5
Valloric Created Sigil, FlightCrew Posts: 1,982 Karma: 350515 Join Date: Feb 2008 Device: Kobo Clara HD	What Jellby said.

03-23-2010, 09:08 AM	#6
paulpeer Zealot Posts: 147 Karma: 56 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Antwerpen Device: iPhone, Sony PRS-505, EPUBreader	OK. This seems to work. But I feel pretty unsure when I have to search a thing I don't see (the soft hyphen) and replace it by another thing I don't see ... I've done the job now in my usual editor Unired, which does show the soft hyphens.

03-24-2010, 01:27 AM	#7
DrMoze Booknut Posts: 858 Karma: 2852 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: West Palm Beach, Florida! Device: Sony Reader 500/505/300/350, Nook Glowlight Plus (6")	OK, I have this same problem (soft hyphens in ePub showing up as '?'s on my Reader). I don't see them even in Code View. So, what is this "character map application" that I can copy the soft hyphen from?I don't see it anywhere in Sigil. And do I just do a global replace of that character with nothing? Thx!

03-24-2010, 05:54 AM	#9
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,542 Karma: 19001583 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	I've created issue 316.

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