[GUI Plugin] Hyphenate This!

[MarkFalk]

I am using "Hyphenate-This!" with azw3-files for "old" kindle-reader and German texts. With nearly every (German) text the hyphenation with the plug-in works.
But some days ago I have converted a German text from pdf to epub (and after editing converting again to azw3, but his makes no difference) and tried several time adding soft-hyphens with the "Hyphenate This!"-plugin. After some time of investigations I realized that the plug-in only added soft-hyphens to text which is enclosed by / between <i class="calibre9"> and </i>, not into "normal" text w/o this tags. Checking this with ebook-edit and searching for "\xad" as "regex" soft-hyphens are only found in text in/between <i class="calibre9"></i> and only this text is displayed with hyphenation. After some research I have learned hat also ebook-polish does insert soft-hyphenations and after doing this with ebook-polish the soft-hyphens are in the complete text: They are found with "\xad" and also are working when displaying the text.
Seems as if the plug-in has a bug and ebook-polish does some things different than the plug-in.
After this I remembered vague that I have realized in the past, that the plug-in did not work with a few other ebooks. Unfortunately I don´t know enough about the structure of .epub, .azw3 etc. for further analyzes.

[Ancanar]

Hello.
I use hyphenate this on my ebooks but although it makes the words hyhen here and there it still does not make all spaces between words equally white as I expected it to do. You can see on the attached screenshot that although some words are hyphenated the space marked in red is much wider than the one marked in green (it's from Calibre preview but looks exactly the same on my Kindle). Is the way to set up the plugin to make spaces equally wide like in real paper books?

[DNSB]

@Ancanar: Posting duplicate messages is frowned upon. Please avoid doing so.

See this thread in the Amazon Kindle forum: Hyphenate This doesn't hyphen "as much as it should" .

[tudoapampa]

Originally Posted by Ruskie_it

Ivano I got that!
Quick and easy: you don't have to load the entire oxt file into hypenate this!
It normally should work, but for some reason it confuses the plugin.
Just open the .oxt file with winzip, then extract hyph_it_IT.dic file from "dictionaries" subdirectory and load that into Hypenate this!
This way the hypenation will work.

PS: Sorry for the repeated posting. :P

thank you! You saved me

[C4thie]

I would like to use KFX format, but it doesnt support hyphenation for my native language. Is it possible to add hyphens with this plugin to EPUB file first. Then convert it to KFX to keep hyphenation? Or converting to KFX is going to remove these changes?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by C4thie

I would like to use KFX format, but it doesnt support hyphenation for my native language. Is it possible to add hyphens with this plugin to EPUB file first. Then convert it to KFX to keep hyphenation? Or converting to KFX is going to remove these changes?

What is your native language? A hyphenation dictionary would have to be found for your language.

You would have to convert to KF8 and then add soft-hyphens. I just did a test and the soft-hyphens I added to the ePub were removed from the KFX. So for KFX, it's a no.

I'm thinking that reason soft-hyphens get removed is because KFX already has hyphenation.

[shamanNS]

Originally Posted by C4thie

I would like to use KFX format, but it doesnt support hyphenation for my native language. Is it possible to add hyphens with this plugin to EPUB file first. Then convert it to KFX to keep hyphenation? Or converting to KFX is going to remove these changes?

I tested this last autumn with sending soft-hyphanted epub via Send to Kindle web page for book in serbian language (serbian Latin script actually, didn't test the Cyrillic script) that also not official supported by KFX format and KFX file deliver to Kindle for Android app had hyphens.

So, couple more notes about this:
- converting books in serbian language using Kindle Previewer directly (so not using KFX output Calibre plugin that now does the language metadata temporary change as a workaround for unsupported languages) wouldn't produce a KFX/KPF file because the language is unsupported.

- if you send epub without soft-hyphens added using Send to Kindle you'll get a KFX file with no hyphens renderer when reading a book. Also no need to fake / change the language metadata when sending via Send to Kindle web page, unlike with Kindle Previewer.