Hello! How can I ensure that in the compilation process, in ePub Ebook (.epub) format, the text is justified and without hyphens at the end of the line. With hyphens the result is not good because it does not respect grammatical rules. Thank you!
You can turn off hyphenation in Scrivener, but I donât know if e-Readers impose hyphenation if the text is justified. The problem with justified text with no hyphenation is that you can end up with huge unsightly spaces between words.
For that reason, I prefer unjustified, or to be pedantic, left-justified for anything other than print.
Mark
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It is a setting in the ereader itself.
Other than using the justification settings the device offers, I donât think one can have any control over it.
There is a way to impose a split point for where it might be needed.
I donât quite recall how, but I am really not sure it would be worth it, given how random the thing would be. I mean there are tons of ereaders, with different screen sizes, and user defined font sizes, etc etcâŠ
The alternative is to publish in the PDF format and have everyone complain about the reading experience of your book.
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Thank you all for your responses. In my case, when I compile in Scrivener in ePub format, when I open that file in Caliber or any e-book reader, the format is impeccable. There is not even a hyphen at the end of the line and it is justified, without space separation. However, when playing the file in Kindle Previewer, what I mentioned happens: the hyphens at the end of the line do not comply with grammatical rules, cutting the word wherever they want. I donât know if itâs because the book is written in Spanish, even though the Kindle Previewer has this language selected, or what the reason is. It is a problem because I sell my e-books on Amazon and on Kindle they also have that problem. If anyone has had this happen and knows the solution, please tell me because I donât know what to do. Thank you so much.
This is something Kindle/Amazon is doing. If Calibre and other ebook readers are correct, then Scrivener is putting the correct information in the file.
This happens when your language/Culture setting is wrong. With the correct language in metadata and body tags, hyphenation tends to be correct in all viewers and readers.
Calibre has a âPolishâ command line tool that allows you to add Soft Hyphens in every word larger than one syllable. This works perfectly and wonât result in large word spaces when using long words together in one sentence using justified text.
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Isnât there something like that in Scrivener? Is this happening because Scrivener does not recognize that the language is Spanish? However, Caliber and other e-readers do not have this problem. Only with Kindle. I have asked Kindle and they answer that it is a formatting program and that it should send it in another format, but of course, in another format the format is not adjustable
Scrivener itself would not know how to recognise one language from another. Are you specifying âesâ as the language code in the Metadata compile option tab, where you would put your author name and so on? Itâs toward the bottom. Without that it would indeed assume âenâ for English, and that could very well make a mess of hyphenation in an ebook reader that supports it.
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Thank you so much! I changed the language code in the metadata, just as you told me, and it worked. A hug!
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