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Old 01-10-2011, 05:44 PM   #1
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Calibre fixes Hyphenation on iPad

I don't like the way iBooks on the iPad does hyphenation and want my ebooks to display without hyphenation.

If I use Calibre 0.6.44 to do a zip>epub conversion — the hyphenation problem is solved (using Calibre 0.7.38 does not fix the hyphenation problem for some reason).

Does anyone know what it is exactly that Calibre is doing? That is, can this be done by hand some way to avoid having to go through Calibre?

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Old 01-10-2011, 06:54 PM   #2
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In 0.7.38 use the preprocess html option. I think that will remove hyphenation.
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The preprocess option will probably work, but it does depend on how the hyphens are inserted in the book.

If it doesn't work open a bug with the book at bugs.calibre-ebook.com and I can tweak the hyphen removal during preprocessing to cover your case.
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Old 01-18-2011, 06:24 PM   #4
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Thanks for your help guys.

The only option I could find is "Preprocess input file to possibly improve structure detection" which, looking at the Calibre User Manual, seems to be the option you're talking about (??).

But this option doesn't fix hyphenation and destroys other elements of the structure (ie. Aboriginal words with individual letters underlined, like Uluru, now have spaces either side of the letter and no underline)

Calibre is also mucking up my cover and title page. Hence the question: can the hyphenation issue be dealt with outside of Calibre?

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Old 01-18-2011, 06:31 PM   #5
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Wait for the next version ldolse and I have done a lot of work that will directly affect your issue. One of the changes is "Preprocess input file to possibly improve structure detection" has been broken out into individual options. So you will be able to enable dehyphenation (which will also be improved in the next release) without enabling the other heuristic options that will change the structure.
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Old 01-18-2011, 07:18 PM   #6
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You probably need to play with the justification option under Look & Feel in the conversion settings. Probably one of the settings, left ata guess will turn off iBooks' auto hyphenation routines.
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Well, thanks for your suggestions guys. But these things aren't getting rid of hyphenation (v.7.43). I'm not having much success with Calibre generally and I'll have to find a non-Calibre solution to the issue. Thanks again for your help. Have a good one. d.
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If you're saying the old version of Calibre didn't cause whatever problem you're having, You will have better luck posting a bug with your original source file, a 6.44 epub conversion of that file, and a 7.43 epub conversion. You can't post books here on mobileread, and whatever is the source of the problem will need some-one to look at examples of the difference between what the two versions are doing.

Open the bug here with attachments: bugs.calibre-ebook.com
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Well, thanks for your suggestions guys. But these things aren't getting rid of hyphenation (v.7.43). I'm not having much success with Calibre generally and I'll have to find a non-Calibre solution to the issue. Thanks again for your help. Have a good one. d.
It may be iBooks itself that does the hyphenation.

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iBooks now fits more words per page by automatically hyphenating text, available only on iOS 4.2 or later
From here . Clik on "More..." under "What's new in version 1.2"
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Old 02-03-2011, 05:50 AM   #10
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Well, thanks for your suggestions guys. But these things aren't getting rid of hyphenation (v.7.43). I'm not having much success with Calibre generally and I'll have to find a non-Calibre solution to the issue. Thanks again for your help. Have a good one. d.
I think Kovid is correct here. When you convert a book under Preferences - Common Options - Look & Feel - Text justification try the left align option or if that doesn't do it try the Justify text option.
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I really appreciate all the feedback — these online resources are major saviours.

Idolse — Calibre doesn't cause the hyphenation problem — that's an iBooks thing (iBooks does hyphenation automatically and really badly). The earlier version of Calibre did something to the ePub to remove this auto-hyphenation. The latest version of Calibre seems not to do this any more (trying the various suggestions posted here and combinations thereof). When I get some time I will definitely get a couple of files together and log a bug report for you.

I've since found (thanks to Liz Castro via Rick Gordon) that adding "-webkit-hyphens:none;" in the CSS will achieve exactly what I need — no auto-hyphenation in iBooks.

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I was looking at the books you uploaded. There isn't any obvious difference in the css 6.44 sets vs. what 7.4 set. The only difference I could see was that 7.4 additionally set the left and right padding to 0 on the <body> tag. I don't think that should contribute to the problem, but you could play with it and see.

The easiest solution is probably what you found - you can add -webkit-hyphens:none using Calibre's extra css option.
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