[xep-support] Re: Hyphenation Question

Jeffrey Thalhammer thalhammer at apple.com
Tue Feb 15 15:47:27 PST 2011


On Feb 15, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Jeffrey Thalhammer wrote:

> Here's a little extra color on the subject.  This is from the XEP User Guide at http://www.renderx.com/reference.html#Linguistic_LineBreaking
> 
> If the hyphenate attribute is set to "true" and all hyphenation conditions (hyphenation-push-character-count, hyphenation-remain-character-count, etc.) 
> are satisfied, then line-break is permitted after a soft hyphen (U+00AD). A soft hyphen at the end of a line is replaced by the text specified in the 
> hyphenation-character attribute; all other soft hyphens are suppressed.
> 
> To me, that says lines can break after soft hyphens ONLY if hyphenate="true".  And that is consistent with the behavior I get.
> 
> Am I interpreting this wrong?  Do you get a different behavior?


I figured out the problem: my hyphens weren't really soft.  So I may have to use the zero-width space as a workaround.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

-Jeff



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