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Originally Posted by WillAdams
Nice edition though! (And those who're curious may find it educational to compare my .pdf w/ this ePub version to see the sort of typographic infelicities which even in the best ePub version can't be controlled for --- one word last lines, # of lines on a page constantly changing to prevent widows / orphans, overly loose line on the middle of pg. 20, 3 word stack on pg. 21 (meditation/Meditation), 2 word stack on pg. 32 (black), 2 word stack on pg. 37 (the) Twice!, six word river on pg. 40 (the/their/the/the/its/we), 2 word stacks on pg. 40 (a & We), 3 word stack on pg. 46 (the/the/The), 2 word stack on pg. 47 (a), awkward break at the bottom of the first page of Chapter VII where the poem is referred to, but appears on the following page (when viewed in Sony's ebook viewing program)).
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Those problems are not intrinsic to ePUB, but are all the fault of the reading software. There's no reason why a reading software could not use some more sophisticate algorithms to break lines and layout "pages" (except that they may be hard to program and resource intensive), instead of the simplistic ones they use. And note that an ePUB is designed to be reflowable, meaning it can be reformatted on-the-fly by changing the font type or size, or the device orientation... so rivers, stacks, widows, pagebreaks, etc. will all change, and it's impossible to control them all. It's like creating a single .tex file that must give a good output for whatever page or font size a user may choose, you can't use hand tweaks there.