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If one wants nicely set text, use a .pdf, where one can use a decent H&J engine, and then manually tweak the text formatting to get the best possible results.
If doing epub, one is at the mercy of the formatting capabilities of whatever viewer the user has chosen and how that interacts w/ screen size / font size &c.
One can:
- manually tie together words or bits one believes shouldn't be broken (Dr. Livingston)
- put things which should not be broken, but might be into a no-break state (didn't)
- manually add discretionary hyphens where there's a possibility of the computer getting it wrong (pres-ent (a gift) vice pre-sent (to give to)) --- this won't work for instances in languages where the spelling has to change depending on whether or no it's hyphenated of course --- see above for a solution for that
- set the text ragged right
Above all, remove any manual line breaks which some idiot (or tormented Quark XPress user) inserted to force a particular linebreak
William
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