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cybmole · 02-26-2015, 01:04 PM

background.
I started reading a direct from amazon book on Kindle fire
a £ zero purchase - The tube Riders vol 1
and I am seeing hyphenation at some line ends. I thought Amazon reader apps did not / could not do that, so I have the book open in calibre AZW editor now to see if I can understand how this is being done...

( at first I thought it was being caused by a recent a Kindle firmware upgrade, but when I checked several other direct-from-amazon books, it only happens in this one single book )

so, having gotten in into calibre & opened it up i see:
1, that the text is one big 1.6Mb html file - that should not be a cause
2. that every para had an inline style. see below.
[ Now as I don't usually edit azw I don't know if this is normal or abnormal - I usually edit only in epub so I am used to seeing a separate stylesheet.]
here's what I see in every p tag:

...

for TOC entries, there are hard coded anchors within that one big file, like this
<a name="c24newborn"></a><a href="part0000.html#toc">Chapter Twenty-Four</a>

it is not obvious to me how the above code would "turn on" hyphenation in the kindle reader.

If I calibre-convert the book epub and view that, it looks like any other book, and if I read the original in Kindle for PC it looks normal there also.

I am pretty sure that it's not hidden soft hyphens, unless every multi-syllable word has them, as I can rotate the tablet to landscape view and see different line-end hyphens.

I pasted a chunk of code into notepad++ but no special character soft hyphens showed up there, though I did not try all encoding options,
I don't think calibre editor has a "show soft hyphens" option ?

any ideas anyone - I am stumped ?

as it is a free book, maybe someone else could "buy" it and take a look
The Tube riders , Chris Ward, kindle edition

02-26-2015, 01:04 PM	#1
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	azw hyphenation question ( how to spot it) background. I started reading a direct from amazon book on Kindle fire a £ zero purchase - The tube Riders vol 1 and I am seeing hyphenation at some line ends. I thought Amazon reader apps did not / could not do that, so I have the book open in calibre AZW editor now to see if I can understand how this is being done... ( at first I thought it was being caused by a recent a Kindle firmware upgrade, but when I checked several other direct-from-amazon books, it only happens in this one single book ) so, having gotten in into calibre & opened it up i see: 1, that the text is one big 1.6Mb html file - that should not be a cause 2. that every para had an inline style. see below. [ Now as I don't usually edit azw I don't know if this is normal or abnormal - I usually edit only in epub so I am used to seeing a separate stylesheet.] here's what I see in every p tag: <p style="margin:0.00% 0.00%; text-indent:1.5em; text-align:justify; widows:0; orphans:0"><span style=" font-size:1.0rem">... for TOC entries, there are hard coded anchors within that one big file, like this <p style="margin:0.00% 0.00%; text-align:center; widows:0; orphans:0"><a name="c24newborn"></a><a href="part0000.html#toc"><span style=" font-size:1.0rem; text-decoration:underline; color:#0000ff">Chapter Twenty-Four</span></a></p> it is not obvious to me how the above code would "turn on" hyphenation in the kindle reader. If I calibre-convert the book epub and view that, it looks like any other book, and if I read the original in Kindle for PC it looks normal there also. I am pretty sure that it's not hidden soft hyphens, unless every multi-syllable word has them, as I can rotate the tablet to landscape view and see different line-end hyphens. I pasted a chunk of code into notepad++ but no special character soft hyphens showed up there, though I did not try all encoding options, I don't think calibre editor has a "show soft hyphens" option ? any ideas anyone - I am stumped ? as it is a free book, maybe someone else could "buy" it and take a look The Tube riders , Chris Ward, kindle edition Last edited by cybmole; 02-26-2015 at 01:07 PM.