[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DreamWriter

body
  {font-family:serif;
  font-weight:normal;}

div.title
  {margin:0;
  text-indent:0;
  text-align:center;
  font-family:"Helvetica", sans-serif;
  font-size:1.5em;}

div.chapter
  {margin-top:1em;
  margin-bottom:0;
  margin-left:0;
  margin-right:0;
  padding-bottom:.3em;
  text-align:center;
  text-indent:0;
  font-family:"Helvetica", sans-serif;
  font-size:1.5em;}

p
  {margin:0;
  text-indent:5%;}

I have an issue here with the text indent being 5%. That's 5% of the screen. So on different devices, you get different indents. On a Kindle DX, or the 10" Kindle Fire, you get rather overly large indents. It's bets to specify the indent in em. I use 1.2em and that works well and does not change based on the screen size.


My other three books currently have embedded fonts for chapters/titles and no called fonts specified at all in either body or p (paragraph) CSS. All four e-books have displayed auto-hyphenation on my Fire HD6 in every upload since early/mid-February. Before that time, they didn't.

* * *

My main goal right now is to figure out why the SAME Lotto: Blood Money file uploaded on different dates, 1-30-15 and 3-9-15, looks so different after publication on Fire HD6. The one uploaded on 3-9-15 (right screenshot, below) has auto-hyphenation and the Publisher Font menu option is gone on Fire HD6. Since these two problems are happening with ALL of my e-books in uploads since early/mid-February, I thought the two issues may be related somehow.

You can see the differences in those after-publication screenshots: the earlier version has no auto-hyphenation; the later one does. Also, the Publisher Font menu option WAS in the earlier version, but not the later upload. The text is darker in the 3-9-15 published book, too.

Both uploaded files had exactly the same CSS and HTML, with an embedded font for chapters/titles and no font specified for main text (body or paragraphs) in KF8 CSS. The Kindlegen-created mobi looks exactly like the 1-30-15 version when sideloaded to my Fire--NO auto-hyphenation or the other weirdness I've observed on Fire HD6 in all my published e-books uploaded after early/mid-February.

Personally, I like the 03/09/2015 version better. Even if the font weight was the same, I prefer the hyphens. Since getting the Kobo Aura H2O with has hyphenation support, I rarely see whide gaps in lines and the H2O does not go crazy hyphenating. The worst Reader is the B&B nook STR and later Readers as they really do go crazy.

Usually there is some way to tell the rendering program not to hyphenate. This is a bunch of different commands you can use to try to turn off hyphenation if that's what you want.

body {
-epub-hyphens: none;
adobe-hyphenate: none;
-webkit-hyphens: none;
-moz-hyphens: none;
hyphens: none;
}

I would not bother with the first two as those are for ADE. But give the last three a go and see what happens.