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Originally Posted by jhowell
The enhanced typesetting features of KFX are handled by the reading device without hints in the KFX file. The kindle devices and apps use a hyphenation dictionary for KFX.
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Okay, then I misinterpreted what KFX is doing -- and the "enhanced" aspect of it isn't all that much of an enhancement after all.
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That feature could have been added without any change to the file format. It just would have made things a bit slower.
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It would cause compatibility problems. Create a file in Word or Excel and try opening it in a previous version. You get errors because features used in the document which are saved in the file aren't supported by the earlier versions of the software. Amazon would have the same kinds of compatibility problems with features added to KF8 on devices with software predating those changes. That's a bad UX for appliances like Kindles.