No need to apologized, I was the one who responded on the wrong thread. As I mentioned there, in the next release we will attempt (as much as we can) to remove hyphens at the end of the line. BTW, looking for soft hyphens isn’t very useful, as PDFs almost always use regular hyphen characters (U+002D) to break words. In fact, I haven’t yet encountered any PDF using soft hyphens. So we will consider both.
Christiaan > On 29 Mar 2022, at 04:36, Mark Roberts <mroberts1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Let me try this again. It seems I shouldn't have broached this on another > thread, and for that I do apologize. > > I'd like to ask about the possibility of Skim automatically trimming soft > hyphens when I create notes. > > Using Skim 1.6.9, if I create a note for a passage in the PDF that includes a > hyphen at the line break, it still includes a soft hyphen (U+00AD) and a > space, and I have to trim each of these by hand. FWIW, the PDF was OCR'd from > scanned pages using the latest version of Adobe Acrobat. > > I checked some other PDF readers and found that Adobe Acrobat Pro, FoxIt > Reader, and PDF Expert all trim out the soft hyphen, as well as the space, > while Skim and Preview do not. > > It seems that if there are any soft hyphens (U+00AD) followed by a space in a > string copied from a PDF, these two characters can safely be trimmed out. > Regular hyphens in the PDFs I've checked are represented by U+002D, so there > should be no danger of losing them if Skim were to perform this operation on > strings. > > These soft hyphens appear in Skim notes as zero-width characters, so to clean > up each note I must first place the cursor in front of the preceding > character, advance, and then hit delete twice. I.e., point, click, and then > hit three keys in a row to clear each one. Over time, this becomes rather > tedious. > > I did a web search and found discussion on the interwebs about OCR'd text and > soft hyphens, with many people asking how they can fix this problem with > various apps. It seems to be a common issue, and — I submit — Acrobat Pro, > FoxIt Reader, and PDF Expert handle it properly while Skim does not. > > Is this something that could be fixed? > > Thanks again, > > M. _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
