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Old 03-18-2023, 01:34 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
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:



So, having no hyphenation automatically happening on your Kindle, something else must've been wrong.

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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.
  • [...]

(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!
Using Send to Kindle won't work, typically, from the jump, because it does not support Enhanced Typesetting. ET is not supported, as it happens, KDP system/eco-system wide. They explain this in no uncertain terms during the file export options from KP3.

The only reason that any hyphenation is showing up, at all, is due to "Hyphenate this!" being used, via Calibre. It has no relationship to, and won't resemble, what will really happen when the ePUB is uploaded to KDP and rendered into the latest and greatest format, WITH ET.

That's the short of it.

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