Weird hyphenation bug

[gitcnd]

Sprint-read the following:-

It can be used to modify unpleasant memories (‘flashbacks’) or upsetting future imaginings (‘flashforwards’).

it goes whacky on that last word.

[gitcnd]

In general, strange non-words and hyphenated things probably need better handling (they take a higher cognitive load to figure out, but there's not enough time when reading at an otherwise comfortably rapid pace): like the below - it correctly presents "and/or" as one "word", but the split in "anxiety-provoking" creates a "parse backlog" as the brain tries to comprehend the meaning of the trailing hyphen, and so do the non-words "ImRs" and "UNSW"... maybe hyphenated things should be kept together, and displayed for double the time a single word would have been? Maybe non-words need to also be displayed longer, so we can work out what these non-familiar non-words things are supposed to mean?

In addition to ImRs, the other three techniques used were: engaging with anxiety-provoking images and/or narrative to reduce their impact. Source: UNSW Sydney

[geb-braid]

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but fyi that there is a setting (see the Advanced tab) to have the reading speed relate to how common the word is in the US English language.