[bksvol-discuss] Re: removing hyphens at the end of a line
- From: Jamie Yates <jamieyates@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:47:06 -0700 (PDT)
Grandma Cindy, that hyphen with the little line on it, is that "optional"
hyphen is what I call it. It's the one that was in the Best-Kept Secret book
that I scanned and was causing the funny problem for the validator.
For me it happens in the OCR process, where in the print book there really is
a hyphen, but when it is scanned and OCR'd, the OCR program says I know there
is a hyphen in print, but when I OCR it, there doesn't HAVE to be a hyphen
unless you're trying to match print. Once in a while it places this optional
hyphen where there really should be one, like if there was the word phrase
soon-to-be but "be" was bumped to the next line, rather than the word
bumblebee where it would be bumble-bee with "bee" bumped to the next line. So
sometimes you can put nothing in for the optional hyphen and sometimes you need
to put in a real hyphen.
Does that make sense?
Jamie in Michigan
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