soft hyphen appearing on pdf.

[TracyKK]

It looks like the soft hyphen that I used to not hyphenate names is appearing on the pdf. What did I do wrong? 

Thanks

Tracy

[kenmcd]

What font are you using?

Could be the font has a soft hyphen character with a glyph in it (not good).

Could be some other feature is messing with the line breaking - and that is a actual hyphen.

It would be helpful to see the document and the PDF. Just a single page like your example above would probably be sufficient. 

[kenmcd]

The text looks a bit loose...

[Alfred]

9 minutes ago, kenmcd said:

The text looks a bit loose...

Ah, good ol’ Randall Munroe! 

[TracyKK]

I have attached the file. I am using EB Garamond for most of the text. I didn't include a pdf. I figure you can create one if you want to see it in pdf.  I understand the images you uploaded, but not really what to do with that information and how that applies to the soft hyphen showing. I like the current justification setting I am using. 80/85 - 100 - 125. I can't remember it I used 80 or 85. I am thinking of switching the soft hyphens to a no break. I also was wondering if the word got two soft hyphens would that cause this issue? My other solution was to have affinity unlearn the word, after I figure out how to do that. it appears if it doesn't know the word, it won't hyphenate it. 

3_27 STORMFLOWER pod.afpub

[Old Bruce]

Seems like every proper name has a "soft hyphen" before it.

An aside: The Text Styles seem to have overrides to give Justified Last Line Left instead of having that set in the actual Paragraph Style. From a quick look all the text styles have (in my opinion) too many overrides.

[kenmcd]

Exported your doc to PDF and then looked at the actual character codes.
There is an actual hyphen-minus (U+002D) in the PDF.

Appears you have two soft hyphens (U+00AD) in the APub text.
I searched for "sweet crackers" like in your image above.
Then highlighted from the "m" in "from" to the "M" in "Marsilias"
and then pressed Alt+U to show the Unicode code points.
There were two U+00AD in the text.
I deleted one of them, and then exported the PDF again.
And the visible hyphen is gone.

I suppose you could do a search and replace to fix them all at once.

 

[TracyKK]

@Old Bruce How do you see the overrides? I also don't use many of the styles. I understand how, but it seems like it's more work and I risk the possibility of more mistakes. The novel is written in Scrivener, then exported as a docx, then copy and pasted into Affinity. I can't get the entire file placed, so I have to do to each chapter. It seems if I touch the styles at all, it removes the italics from the specific dialogue, it removes the words that I have bold, etc. I have the exact same problem during Compile in Scrivener. If I use anything other than 'as is' it removes all the 'special' formatting I did. I have no idea how to use Compile or Styles and not have it destroy the formatting I am using.

This book that I converting to Affinity has the first letter of the internal dialogue of the other voice in the pov's head bold. The sentence starts with a bold letter and is in italics to make sure the reader knows who is speaking during this internal dialogue. Anything other than copy and paste removes all of this.

[Old Bruce]

23 minutes ago, TracyKK said:

This book that I converting to Affinity has the first letter of the internal dialogue of the other voice in the pov's head bold. The sentence starts with a bold letter and is in italics to make sure the reader knows who is speaking during this internal dialogue. Anything other than copy and paste removes all of this.

Take a look at this file;

internal voice.afpub

I have set the Character Style for the Drop Cap in the Paragraph Style "Internal Voice" to the Character Style "Internal Voice Character" to be Bold and the Paragraph Style uses only the first character and has it set to be 1 (one) line instead of the default 3 lines.

29 minutes ago, TracyKK said:

... it seems like it's more work and I risk the possibility of more mistakes.

I would disagree, a set of well made Character and Paragraph Styles will prevent mistakes. It is a bit of work, yes, but I do believe it will save you time in the short and long term.

After placing your text you apply the Character Styles then the Paragraph Styles. Make an Italic style and a Bold style and apply them using Find and replace. This will prevent losing the styling as you apply your Paragraph Styles.

[TracyKK]

This is one of those conversations I would prefer to have person to person. I am asking you to help me understand how it is better in the long run. Thanks for showing me how to set up an internal dialogue style.  Will I need to set up the 'next style'? Are you suggesting that I do this in Scrivener or Affinity? Doing it in Affinity seems like a lot of extra work, finding every internal dialogue, double checking, find and replace, etc. Why would that be better than just the copy and paste, which will bring in that formatting?