Thread: Why Kobo add spaces between letters of first word?
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Old 07-28-2020, 12:20 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by rashomon View Post
3. Now I see that in the styles.css there is something like:
body {
font-family: serif;
adobe-hyphenate: none;
-webkit-hyphens: none;
-moz-hyphens: none;
-ms-hyphens: none;
-epub-hyphens: none;
hyphens: none;
font-language-override: "SRB";
font-kerning: normal;
font-variant: common-ligatures lining-nums proportional-nums;
font-variant-ligatures: contextual;
}
Could this be the problem (bold lines)
How are you creating the kepub? Is the above in the original epub, or after the conversion to kepub? If the latter, try turning of the hyphenation options to see what happens.

We probably need a full example to experiment with. If the book is legally available somewhere, post the link for us to try. You could try the ScrambleBook plugin in calibre, but, that might not work because of the language. We would also need to know things like what you font settings are - fonts and the justification option selected on the device.

But the thing that I can see is that the word that has the spaces, is a single word in a sentence. Which means it is a single word sentence in the Kobo span. Are there other examples like this in the book? A test would be to merge the span for this sentence with the next one. If this fixes the issue for this spot, it would suggest it is an issue with how the spacing is done across these spans.
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