[xep-support] Re: Hyphenation Question

From: Jeffrey Thalhammer <thalhammer@apple.com>
Date: Tue Feb 15 2011 - 15:47:27 PST

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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