automatic hyphens at end of line show up as boxes

spetey · 01-06-2022, 06:09 PM

Hi Calibre folks! I'm such a big fan of this work and have supported it financially in the past. Someday I hope even to contribute code! I have a lot to learn before I can do that, though.

Meanwhile, a puzzle: I have an epub book that somehow gets dynamically hyphenated in the viewer, even though the underlying xhtml file has no such hyphens. I guess this is from css? I didn't know it could do that.

But my main problem is that the dynamic hyphens show up as boxes, not hyphens. I suppose this is a font issue of some kind, but I'm not sure how to fix it, and would appreciate any thoughts. Thanks!

kovidgoyal · 01-06-2022, 11:43 PM

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1954714

spetey · 01-07-2022, 01:46 AM

Wow amazing, fixed just like that! I did look around for other posts etc. but didn't see this bug report. Thank you!

01-06-2022, 06:09 PM	#1
spetey Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2020 Device: cross-platform	automatic hyphens at end of line show up as boxes Hi Calibre folks! I'm such a big fan of this work and have supported it financially in the past. Someday I hope even to contribute code! I have a lot to learn before I can do that, though. Meanwhile, a puzzle: I have an epub book that somehow gets dynamically hyphenated in the viewer, even though the underlying xhtml file has no such hyphens. I guess this is from css? I didn't know it could do that. But my main problem is that the dynamic hyphens show up as boxes, not hyphens. I suppose this is a font issue of some kind, but I'm not sure how to fix it, and would appreciate any thoughts. Thanks!

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01-06-2022, 11:43 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,561 Karma: 24495948 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	See https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1954714

01-07-2022, 01:46 AM	#3
spetey Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2020 Device: cross-platform	Wow amazing, fixed just like that! I did look around for other posts etc. but didn't see this bug report. Thank you!