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Originally Posted by NullNix
Actually you can hyphenate ebooks fine, as long as you convert them to AZW3: use ­ hyphens (discretionary). (You can also use zero-width spaces to split things like URLs at line ends without disrupting them if not split). There is a Calibre plugin to do it, but for a lot of stuff these days I just use a tiny Perl script I wrote based on XML::Twig and TeX::Hyphen, then kindlegen the result. 
None of this works in non-AZW3 MOBI, which means periodicals remain unhyphenatable to this day: if you Calibre-convert them, you can left-justify them instead, which makes them readable again, but with periodicals purchased from Amazon you are doomed to full justification with horrible intermittently jagged right borders. |
Yes, I can hypenhate with these tricks, but kerning and drop caps won't work anyway... it is unacceptable. These are things that a good engine should offer and they invented a new format (kfx) just to avoid you use them in your books not bought from their store.