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Old 02-07-2013, 01:35 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Kindle devices do not support auto-hyphenation (even with KF8). Furthermore the hyphen css selectors are not among the list of supported selectors in the latest Kindle Publishing Guidelines.
Have you tried -webkit-hyphens on the actual device? Because it does work in Kindle Previewer, and I would hope that they used the same version of GTK WebKit....

Worst case scenario, you can insert soft hyphens (& shy;). IIRC, Kindlegen strips them out on the way to Mobi7, and if you combine them with hyphens: manual; and appropriate -webkit- and -epub- variants, the reader should break if necessary at that point even if the Fire uses an older version of GTK WebKit that doesn't have true auto-hyphenation support.

Incidentally, WebKit itself doesn't support the hyphens selector, last I checked. It supports only the -webkit-hyphens vendor-prefixed variant. So even if/when unaided auto-hyphenation works on a Kindle, you'll probably never see that vendor-prefixed property in Amazon's officially supported property list....


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EDIT: I believe the iPhone Kindle app (maybe others?) support auto-hyphenation, but even then... to my knowledge, it's not controlable with in-book css selectors. Kindle devices don't do auto-hyphenation at all (mobi or kf8).
Last I checked, Kindle for iOS didn't even support KF8 except fixed-layout, so I doubt it supports hyphenation usefully.
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