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DNSB · 03-23-2024, 05:06 PM

Sorry but a soft hyphen serves as an invisible marker used to specify a place in text where a hyphenated break is allowed. Having a space immediately before or after a soft hyphen indicates that you want to place a hyphen between words if needed.

That is simply wrong no matter how you spin the excuses.

Replacing a soft hyphen/space combination with a space corrects the issue.

Out of curiosity, how often have you run into this issue with .docx to .epub conversions done by other people since you rather continuously mention not having the original document to be able to fix the issue at it's source. How many of those conversions by other people have you run into? Have you tried suggesting that their documents are poorly formatted and should be fixed? Or are you just spinning hypothetical rationales and in real life, have never run in the situation where the converted document is all you have?

03-23-2024, 05:06 PM	#35
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 36,642 Karma: 146499190 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	Sorry but a soft hyphen serves as an invisible marker used to specify a place in text where a hyphenated break is allowed. Having a space immediately before or after a soft hyphen indicates that you want to place a hyphen between words if needed. That is simply wrong no matter how you spin the excuses. Replacing a soft hyphen/space combination with a space corrects the issue. Out of curiosity, how often have you run into this issue with .docx to .epub conversions done by other people since you rather continuously mention not having the original document to be able to fix the issue at it's source. How many of those conversions by other people have you run into? Have you tried suggesting that their documents are poorly formatted and should be fixed? Or are you just spinning hypothetical rationales and in real life, have never run in the situation where the converted document is all you have? Last edited by DNSB; 03-23-2024 at 05:08 PM.