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Originally Posted by jhowell
Thanks, Aaron! I found your blog to be very informative. It is sad to see how Amazon has botched its new book rendering software.
I have described a different problem with it in another thread. |
That's an easy one.
If calibre is inserting paragraphs with only nonbreaking spaces to produce vertical spacing, that won't work anymore. Kindle Format X is ignoring nonbreaking spaces, treating them as regular spaces instead. And to the browser software that the Kindle uses for basic rendering, a paragraph with only a space in it has no content and is no paragraph at all. So, the whole thing is just omitted. You need to use CSS for margin-bottom instead.
This is the kind of thing that makes KFX such a devil. None of the regular proofing methods will show you this new treatment of nonbreaking spaces, so it won't show up until weeks after publication, when the file is reprocessed for Enhanced Typesetting. And by that time, you're not likely to be paying attention. I doubt there's any ebook software out there that has yet caught up to these changes.
Aaron