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Originally Posted by DreamWriter
(Again, the words early- and panic- are intentional hyphens on my part.) It tries to justify, but there are still a lot of ragged-right lines.  |
That's standard. Where spacing would yield too wide a gap between words, the KDP conversion will use the occasional short line instead. In my experience, though, it's seldom as often as once a page. Perhaps the allowed gap has been shortened in the 6-inch tablet?
Certainly the wild hyphenating is new. I have seen the occasional conventionally published Kindle book with hyphenated words, but never one of my own. It wasn't too long ago that the KDP permitted hyphen (or em dash) breaks at all, but treated such words as a unit. I was delighted when that was changed, because I had earlier changed my formatting to get rid of most hyphens and to use British instead of American style with dashes (that is, a space followed by an en dash followed by another space). I like the current setup better -- but not if it means wild hyphenating! Perhaps this is a trial run on a new hyphenating software?