03-10-2017, 09:04 AM | #586 | |
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For some reason HTML table support is one of the last e-book features to be implemented in KFX. The initial Kindle firmware with KFX, 5.6.5, did not support tables at all. Subsequent firmware releases have have added support for table features incrementally. Even the Kindle firmware released this week, 5.8.8, has further improvements to table handling according to the release notes. |
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03-10-2017, 01:25 PM | #587 | |
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Another batch of KFX only manga features landed today. And they increased speed of page turning and Panel View even more.
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04-24-2017, 06:18 PM | #589 |
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I came across Amazon documentation for Ion, the data format that KFX is based on, at https://amznlabs.github.io/ion-docs/.
Reference implementations of Ion in Java, C and Python can be found at https://github.com/amznlabs. Last edited by jhowell; 04-24-2017 at 06:46 PM. |
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04-29-2017, 09:52 AM | #591 |
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I've searched the thread but couldn't find an answer.
Among the KFX format "enhanced typesetting" there should be dropcaps. The question is: how to use them? I've tried with no luck with the CSS ::first-letter selector. Of course it's possible doing it via simple CSS but the rendering is quite font-family (and device) dependent. |
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04-29-2017, 02:38 PM | #593 | |
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I haven't had a chance to look at that yet, but if that's the same-old, same-old coding for DCs that has been in now for some PGs, that doesn't work worth two craps when you cross the Device Line--from Fires to the KF8 eInks (PPW, etc.). The PPW, to be particularly capricious, basically requires the user to actively select "Publisher Font," and if they don't, it's nearly impossible to get the Drops to work, in that environment. As drops, that is. We use about five million lines of code/HTML/CSS, with about 10 media queries, just to TRY to get those right. It's a royal pita. If the new KC somehow magically overcomes that, I'll be ripping those mobis/KFX/KPFs apart, to see what they're doing. Offered solely FWIW. Hitch |
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It seems to me that this is a "classical" CSS solution. I've tried to load sample (see attachment - it's in Italian but that shouldn't do any difference) either with Kindle Previewer 2 and Kindle Previewer 3. The suggested dropcaps solution works in both cases. In the latter the first letter is rendered as normal text if the font is too big. Also, it seems to me that non-breakable-spaces are not honored in KFX. P.S. I read somewhere that KFX would incorrectly break numbers with many digits across two lines but as far I can see this is not true (unless the number is wider than the screen). Last edited by pirl8; 04-29-2017 at 05:38 PM. |
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The solution I'm using is the one suggested in the "Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines" and ... actually is not a definitive solution at all. It's simply a CSS trick. As far as I can see, dropcaps are rendered almost the same in AZW3 and in KFX. Since amazon claims that KFX has an enhanced dropcaps support I'm simply wondering what it does look like. |
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Kindle Previewer 3 version 3.11 beta is now available.
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Oh, brother!!! KFX issues
Hi, kiddles:
Well, are we having fun yet? You all know how often, here at MR, we're seeing that John or Jack or Harriet is trying to solve some typographic issue, and s/he decides to use "display: inline-block?" Well, guess what? That is ixnay with Advanced or Enhanced Typography. We actually received our first-ever KQN, for formatting, today. 3500+ books, and we get this BS: Quote:
We'd used it to create bulleted lists, with the obligatory hanging indents, for this person's book, that didn't use the ;bull character, but used squares, some little faces, and a directional sign, instead. But, IXNAY on the Inline-Block-ay. Needless to say, the client is underwhelmed. He's being reasonable, thank GOD, but he's not a happy camper. We also got a rasher of s**t about using line-heights, but I explained that we use varying fonts, and those use different x-heights, and have different tail/descender and ascender heights/sizes. I mean, are they KIDDING? I replied, "thank GOD that they can't adjust the damn line heights!" As most of you know, if you set the line-height, in MOBI, the end user can't adjust the line-heights, on the K4PC/K4Mac, etc., apps. Now, I'm all in favor of the user being able to do that, for the BODY fonts and main narrative, but for special elements, like headings and the like? Eff, no!!! I thought that you kids may want to know this!!! Interferes with enhanced typography. I checked--just in case I'd missed something--I ran the source through KP 3.10, again, just to see if a warning came up, or anything like it, and it sailed through. You'd think that if there's CSS that's going to interfere, with ET, they'd bloody well tell you, wouldn't you? BU**ER!! Spoiler:
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