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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
@mattmc: Inserting soft hyphens before hand means the text rendering engine does not have to figure out the positions at which it is suitable to insert hyphens in a word by itself. This makes its performance somewhat better and means the rendering engine does not have to ship with large collections of language specific hyphenation rules.
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Originally Posted by jhowell
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Thanks, this makes sense, guys.
@Hitch, A lot to say, as usual!
And always enlightening. I'll break your response into pieces, here...
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Originally Posted by Hitch
I have NOT yet discussed KFX with Amazon. I don't know enough about it to discuss it with them intelligently, and as youse guys know, I'm not a programmer.
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Not to jinx it, but I get the feeling that you will be talking to them soon--programming wisdom or not. If Amazon is converting new books into KFX, I'm guessing it's a matter of time before you have a customer whose book is doing something funky after passing through kfxgen, and you will have no way of fixing and re-checking it without giving it back to Amazon to process.
That means unhappy customers, which means unhappy Hitch, which means Amazon is going to get an earful--and I won't envy them for being on the receipt end of your wrath.
Anyway, since I remember from some earlier thread that you have an ECS/ECR account, you could possibly short-circuit all that by emailing them and asking what their plan is for creators proofing books in this format. (Keep in mind that the KFX conversion doesn't happen as part of the normal KDP machinery, it's like that weird SRL thing, but it happens days (or weeks or whatever) after the book has been up for sale.)
You can tell me if I'm being too presumptuous, but I had to suggest it. (If I had an ECS/ECR account, I'd email them--heck, maybe I'll try their generic customer support. Probably at
least as likely to work as cutting steel with a butter knife.)
EDIT: Actually, this is rather interesting:
https://watchdognation.com/what-is-j...email-address/
A method of last resort...
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Originally Posted by Hitch
To wit: here's what we all don't know: we all don't yet know if every bloody book out there, that has escaped into the KDP, over the last 7-ish years, will be reprocessed.
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Yeah, hopefully not; it would be chaos if they tried. But I do worry about new ones I'll be putting up.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
...the damned ePUB won't intake at iBooks or wherever, because the bloody thing won't validate, naturally.
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This rather innocuous comment in the middle of your post alerted me to the fact that iBooks uses ePubCheck as part of their ingest machinery...I have to say, thanks for that! I was using some ePub 3 features in my ePub 2 book, and it definitely doesn't pass ePubCheck.
Back to the workshop...
P.S. Conscious of @Kovid's request earlier, but I think this is still relevant to the format...