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Old 05-25-2021, 08:48 PM   #1056
Jaws
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
Doing that better hides the period, but it is not completely effective because KFX renderer is designed to try to make text more readable. For example, setting the text color to white does not hide it because the renderer adjusts colors for contrast against the current background color. {...}
I did say it was a workaround that I couldn't test on a recent Kindle...

Would using the HTML nonbreaking-space entity work better for Kindle users? Substituting & nbsp; (without the space) for the period works on the old Kindle that I have access to, including when the background is a different color. It works perfectly for .epubs and web-viewed HTML, and according to the old .mobi spec I looked at should work for .azw and .kfx (but like I said, I can't test it on anything that wouldn't qualify as a special deal from Honest Al's Used Cars).

Another alternative might be the Unicode en-space character U+2002 (& #8194; again without the space), but entering that can be tricky depending on the native keyboard setup on the machine used to edit the file so I defaulted to an entity designation. Same caveat: I can't test this on current equipment; I'm just suggesting it as a workaround that will be easy to modify later (because the code is so easy to search for and unlikely to overlap anything else).

The issue with a "full line space between" does not show up on the older Kindle that I'm using, or Kindle-for-PC. So I'm not sure about that...

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