![]() If Kindle encounters a soft hyphen near a line break, it considers it a hyphenation opportunity. While Amazon, intent on keeping developers miserable, declined to explain how their new hyphenation engine works, it actually appears to just be support for the Unicode soft hyphen character (U+00AD). The good news is that it's possible to take advantage of Kindle's new hyphenation support as an independent ebook developer. While this would be the obvious approach to things, resulting in all of Amazon's back catalog being instantly hyphen-compatible and making life easy for ebook developers, as we all know Amazon's more interested in milking the ebook cow than it is putting any kind of effort into the reading or development experiences. But unfortunately for us ebook producers, Kindle's enhanced typography isn't automatic that is, Kindle doesn't use a built-in hyphenation dictionary to hyphenate ebooks on-the-fly. ![]() Kindle, the 800 pound gorilla of ereaders, didn't do it at all until very recently with their "enhanced typography" update. Ereading apps like FBReader also do hyphenation fairly well. ![]() ![]() Some ereaders do it fairly well Nook, despite being a generally terrible ereader, has had automatic hyphenation for quite some time. A perennial problem in today's ereading systems is hyphenation of words between two lines. ![]()
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