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I don't see how hyphenation could be left "on" when publishing ebooks. Nearly all the platforms I've used allow the user to control font face and font size. Hyp
by qart 6y ago
I don't see how hyphenation could be left "on" when publishing ebooks. Nearly all the platforms I've used allow the user to control font face and font size. Hyphenation would malfunction under such circumstances.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agosoft hyphens can be put in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen to allow the client to hyphenate as appropriate.
- qart 6y agoTIL. Thanks. But this would require soft hyphens in every multi-syllabic word of the epub, right?
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoyes, so as a general rule for any publishing scenario where hyphenation is important you have an automated solution, for example for a small company / single person you might set up something using https://github.com/bramstein/hypher https://github.com/bramstein/hypher or find a similar tool. Also this tends to be sort of overkill for what most people want so - as with most tech - gotta evaluate if it's worth the time and effort.
- baby 6y agoThat’s not how it works. You can control these things when you want to produce a pdf or a document for print, but you can’t control them for formats like epub (as font size, screen size can be changed)
- acabal 6y agoThe CSS `hyphens` property allows the browser (or ereader) to automatically hyphenate, and is usually set to off by default. It works fairly well in a browser context, and currently has limited support in ebook context. Kepubs on Kobo for example support it, but the result isn't as good as directly inserting soft hyphens into the text.