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clauclauclaudia · 12-29-2012, 09:24 PM

Hi, I'm totally new to the forums--please excuse errors of ignorance.

I got a Kobo Mini during the recent sale and it's updated to 2.3.1. I've seen bugs that others have mentioned here, but nowhere on the web have I found mention of the one I find the most annoying. (Perhaps widow/orphan protection prevents people from encountering it. These are not published e-books I'm reading.)

Short version: When the last line of a paragraph is alone at the top of the screen, and the last word is hyphenated, the latter part of the word just fails to display at all.

Longer version: I took .txt files (they had some annoying "smart punctuation" characters but I doubt that's relevant) and converted them in Calibre 0.9.11 to ePub. I don't believe I changed any conversion settings from the default except the ineffective "unsmarten" checkbox [and I assume that's on account of the file being .txt and not being expected to have smart quotes and such].

I then got the display issue above--final partial words of paragraphs going missing. I checked the txt and ePub files and the words are there complete and unhyphenated; this is definitely a display or hyphenation algorithm issue.

Thoughts? corroboration? cookies?

12-29-2012, 09:24 PM	#246
clauclauclaudia Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: kobo mini	orphaned words vanishing? Hi, I'm totally new to the forums--please excuse errors of ignorance. I got a Kobo Mini during the recent sale and it's updated to 2.3.1. I've seen bugs that others have mentioned here, but nowhere on the web have I found mention of the one I find the most annoying. (Perhaps widow/orphan protection prevents people from encountering it. These are not published e-books I'm reading.) Short version: When the last line of a paragraph is alone at the top of the screen, and the last word is hyphenated, the latter part of the word just fails to display at all. Longer version: I took .txt files (they had some annoying "smart punctuation" characters but I doubt that's relevant) and converted them in Calibre 0.9.11 to ePub. I don't believe I changed any conversion settings from the default except the ineffective "unsmarten" checkbox [and I assume that's on account of the file being .txt and not being expected to have smart quotes and such]. I then got the display issue above--final partial words of paragraphs going missing. I checked the txt and ePub files and the words are there complete and unhyphenated; this is definitely a display or hyphenation algorithm issue. Thoughts? corroboration? cookies?