02-07-2013, 05:34 AM | #16 | |
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On eInk Kindles soft-hyphens work, but automatic hyphenation does not work no matter what hypenation style you use. You may want to test Kindle books on actual devices or the Kindle for PC app before making blanket statements. |
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02-07-2013, 07:05 AM | #17 | |
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I may be wrong about the Kindle for iPhone app. It may not support auto-hyphenation at all. I don't have a device to test it on. For that matter, I'm not even really convinced that the Kindle Fire's (or any of the other eInk devices') KF8 reader/renderer is based on WebKit. The Silk Browser is definitely based on WebKit, though. |
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02-07-2013, 10:02 PM | #18 | |
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[Edit: looks like I deleted my snarky cheap shot at Kindle Paperwhite preview mode's bugfest in editing. So I just said that it worked in Fire and Fire HD previewer modes, and left the rest to implication. ] Last edited by dgatwood; 02-08-2013 at 12:56 AM. |
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02-10-2013, 02:42 AM | #19 |
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I don't actually have a Kindle device of my own, I use Kindle for PC. It seems to work quite well. I've yet to solve letter spacing, but I'm not sure exactly what can be done about it, lol.
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02-10-2013, 02:48 PM | #20 |
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02-12-2013, 02:09 PM | #21 |
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I just wanted to add a couple of points. Don't trust the Kindle Previewer. It usually works ok for the Kindle Fire modes, but all of the rest of the modes are broken in various ways.
The KF8 HTML/CSS renderer is based on the Webkit browser. That's a fact. There are lots of features that are undocumented by Amazon, but work just fine. In my production process, I prefer to run the book's text through a hyphenation algorithm and insert soft hyphens (which doesn't require jailbreaking, it will work on any KF8 capable Kindle), but it doesn't surprise me that -webkit CSS feature works. |
02-12-2013, 04:59 PM | #22 | |
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Of course, if they are for your own personal use, that's fine for you to do whatever it is that you like. |
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02-14-2013, 04:53 PM | #23 | |
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And, Kindlegen has been removing the soft hyphens from the old .mobi format since version 2.4. But, I test my books just to be sure. |
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02-15-2013, 03:58 AM | #24 |
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How does searching work with soft hyphens?
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02-20-2013, 07:04 PM | #25 |
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Soft hyphens don't affect search at all. I've tested this extensively.
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