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Originally Posted by DeepVoid
I apologize for resuming this old thread, but I'm trying to add hyphenation to an epub book, [...]
Any hint to figure out what to do?
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For CSS
hyphens to work, it requires:
- Your device to have the proper Hyphenation Dictionaries for your language.
- Your ebook to be marked with the proper HTML language.
For example, Kobo has great support, and even allows you to add your own custom dictionaries for any language.
Kindles are locked down, so if Amazon hasn't added a hyphenation dictionary for (RandomLanguageX), you're out of luck.
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Side Note: According to
jhowell in 2021, your Kindle should already support Italian hyphenation:
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Originally Posted by jhowell
The hyphenation dictionary languages are: English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Russian, Dutch, Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, and Malayalam.
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So, having no hyphenation automatically happening on your Kindle, something else must've been wrong.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DeepVoid
I managed to solve the issue with some little workarounds, [...]
[...] use the Hyphenate This! plugin to generate the hyphenation.
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I'd put a very huge WARNING label on this.
Only use Hyphenate This! on an ebook:
- You are going to be personally reading.
- As a very, very last resort.
- Like if your ereader is really old.
DO NOT ever use it on a book you're trying to sell.
It completely fills the book full of SOFT HYPHENS... and while it may LOOK like "hyphenation now works", it can cause many other problems with:
- Search
- Spellchecking
- Copy/Pasting
- Dictionary popups
- Where you press+hold on words.
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(More
disadvantages listed in my 2021 post.)
It's much better to do hyphenation automatically + on your actual device.
(Luckily, things have been getting much better in the past few years!)
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Side Note #2: For all the hyphenation info you'll ever need to know... I've written A TON about it:
I'd also recommend just typing this into your favorite search engine:
Code:
hyphenation Tex2002ans site:mobileread.com
The past few years, I've been really explaining why:
- Marking your ebook + HTML language properly
is super important. And proper hyphenation is one of the key reasons!
