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From: Marco <netuse@lavabit.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: ebook from project: hyphenation lost
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 13:14:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120604131445.5ac17150@Zewz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BAD2E2A-3588-4933-9486-BC0A3F5C2A12@web.de>

On 2012-06-04 Andy Thomas <andythomas@web.de> wrote:

> He explicitly states: "Hyphenation is also present. ConTeXt
> inserts soft hyphen (0x00AD) characters where hyphenation is
> possible, which enables the browser to justify the paragraphs."
> Although a quick check of my xml file shows, that there is no
> hyphenation in Safari and there are no 0x00AD characters I can
> find with a Hex-Editor.

Don't inspect the XML rendered by the browser. Open the XML file
directly with an editor. I don't know if the soft hyphens survive
being digested by my mail agent, but the source contains 0x00AD
characters:

	The Earth, as a habi­tat for an­i­mal life, is in old age and has
	a fa­tal ill­ness. Sev­eral, in fact. It would be hap­pen­ing
	whether hu­mans had ever evolved or not.

> Maybe you could try with different viewers/browsers, because if
> there is an 0x00AD in the source, doesn't the viewer have to take
> care of the actual hyphenation? 

Exactly, and it works fine here, even with an ancient version of
Firefox (4.0)


Marco


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-04 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-04  8:55 Henning Hraban Ramm
2012-06-04  9:14 ` Andy Thomas
2012-06-04  9:36   ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2012-06-04 11:14   ` Marco [this message]

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