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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Interesting, good to know. Although since I assume that your test is that you create an epub file send it to amazon and then test the resulting KFX file. In which case it is possible that kfxgen sees that instruction and decides to skip inserting soft hyphens while generating the KFX. Still, that seems rather unlikely so your evidence certainly makes it more probable that KFX does not use soft hyphens. For which I am grateful, in a technical sense, but saddened in a political one -- since it seems there is no remaining technical justification for KFX, making it more likely that it is just a walled garden play.
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Kovid, my test is to submit new HTML files for books that are already listed with Enhanced Typesetting enabled. These files are immediately processed as KFX, no waiting. The next day, I ask Amazon to replace my purchased copy with the latest version, and that shows me the new file with the latest KFX processing. It's cumbersome, but it allows at least limited testing.
I think the reason for KFX is to be able to add and modify "secret sauce" ingredients and make them hard for competitors to copy -- though, so far, they've made a royal mess of it. I do like the new JPEG XR format. I have no doubt there are more changes coming, and they're just setting up the groundwork. And I also know they're working hard to get the bugs out.