Different length for same text in PDF

[jfaltenbacher]

Problem Description

Hyphenation and sentence length changes in some cases in PDF output
See comparison between SP4 and SP5 here:

Expected Behavior

Have same length for same text

[tomschr]

Thanks Julia.
The short answer: Hyphenation is a hell hole and you can only loose. 😉

A bit more background...
I've spent hours on that. 🙄 From the above screenshot it's likely that's an inline element (looks like option or literal is used.) The hyphenation changed between the SPs, but I don't know not all details anymore (need to look it up in Git).

I remember, that I've changed the hyphenation rules on some inline elements (that was mostly filename, but option could also be affected). The rule changed over time. Before it was the rule "don't hyphenate that element at all", "don't hyphenate, but only between specific characters" to "allow hyphenation". Neither change was really satisfying: either it breaks at the wrong position, leaves some visible gap, or it didn't work. I basically gave up on this. 😢