In the Mac version there is a setting in Preferences-> Editing to run on hypenation in the main editor. Seems to be lacking in the Win version?
And how can I turn on/off hyphenation in a compile format? Is it only available in some formats (I have a PDF format right now).
Interestingly the manual for Windows doesn’t even have any mentioning of “hyphenation” … ?
Many thanks for any insights, I quite new to Scrivener but getting accustomed … 
With a few exceptions here and there (most of which are slated to be fixed), we don’t put things in different places just to confuse people. If you can’t find it, it’s not there. Maybe it will be, maybe it never will be.
In this case, unless Qt adds hyphenation support to their text engine, it never will be. We do not have the resources to reinvent that wheel, in dozens of languages no less.
Thank you.
I asked because I read in some forum post, that this option seems to be available in the Mac version. Which I cannot check myself.
Often if I can’t find something it is nit because it is not there but because I look at the wrong place :-). And I’m quite new to Scrivener, that’s why I ask. To just not miss it. If it’s not available: fine, no problem with that…
And in another forum post someone said that it might depend on the selected format during compilation, so I wanted to know if there are formats which might offer this option, and some other not. How can I know if I don’t ask after trying to find out?
As far as I understand your answer, hyphenation is neither available for the main editor nor any target format during compilation?
No worries! It can be harder when just going by hearsay.
As far as I understand your answer, hyphenation is neither available for the main editor nor any target format during compilation?
That’s correct, there is no support for it in the text engine itself (like on the Mac), and it is going to impact the editor and PDF. What we could conceivably do is add support for it to word processing and ebook output—because in that case it isn’t a matter of our text engine doing the layout and word wrapping, but rather inserting declarations into the output. I’ll double-check to see that is on the list for future improvement.
Okay, so it depends on the OS and its capabilities?
I wonder, by the way, if there are differences in the status/content of the German (or other) UI translations between both versions (Mac and Win)? I’ve seen a couple of videos (by Gian Camichel) where the Mac version has definitely different, probably better or more complete German translations than the Windows version.
Do both versions use a different set of resources during builds?
That could be a reason to install a docker version with Mac OS …
Yes, there are things like that which depend on the framework or the OS to provide them. For the most part it pertains to things that are way outside of our ability to just create from scratch, like how the Mac has grammar detection everywhere, even typing in this forum you could turn it on I think, in Safari anyway.
Do both versions use a different set of resources during builds?
Absolutely, there is no shared code, they use different programming languages for one thing.
Localisation is completely different as well, as that also cannot be simply swapped over to another universe of software.