[bksvol-discuss] Re: Eliminating soft hyphens
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 18:36:55 -0800 (PST)
They could be eliminated by a global replace with
nothing, but then some that should remain would also
be eliminated. I do it manually as I go along.
Possibly replacing a hyphen space with nothing would
eliminate them without also removing hyphens that
belong between words or compound phrases.
Cindy
--- Munawar Bijani <munawarb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello List,
> I'm back with yet another question. smile. While
> scanning a Goosebumps book
> for upload, I realized that several words are
> hyphenated so that they may
> pick up on the following line. For instance, if the
> word trembling is at the
> end of a line and it will overrun the margin, the
> word is printed as
> follows:
> trem-
> bling
> Will this degrade the scan quality (IE: will the
> automated dictionary give
> the validator a lower quality rating,) or can the
> dictionary tell if a word
> is intentionally broken up? Is there any way to
> remove these hyphens without
> doing it manually? I went through a recent book I
> submitted: "Marriage and
> Morals in Islam" and did remove the soft hyphens
> where ever I could. Do I
> have to do this for every book I submit?
> Thanks, and sorry for so many questions! :)
>
> Munawar A. Bijani
> mailto:munawarb@xxxxxxxxx
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Cindy
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