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Originally Posted by gtoal
However that gripe is not the point of my post; rather it is to ask if anyone is interested in a piece of code I wrote a few years ago when the Kindle first came out, which takes an HTML file and 'manually' inserts & shy; characters into words at the points determined by TeX's hyphenation algorithm.
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Not all Kindles support soft hyphens. Some will display a soft hyphen as a hard hyphen, whether or not it falls at the end of the line. In other words, YOU CAN'T USE SOFT HYPHENS IN KINDLE BOOKS. Amazon is very explicit about it not being supported. The only special formatting characters supported by ALL Kindles -- or supposed to be, anyway -- are the nonbreaking space and the zero width non-joiner.
This is a common error of Kindle authors that leads to desperate forum posts and viral complaints based on nothing but not being aware of Kindle guidelines. "Where did all those extra hyphens come from?!!!!" They're soft hyphens, that's all.