10-25-2010, 04:22 AM | #1 |
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Text alignment
I'm looking at the beta epub of my first book on my Iriver, and I must say I'm disturbed by the occasional long gaps at the right end of lines, since I have used left alignment. I've looked at some of the other books on my Iriver, and every one appears to be justified, and only rarely is there a noticeable gap in the middle or serious hyphenation. In fact, I haven't noticed any hyphenation.
In the course of searching for tips on this on the forum, I've discovered that one can apparently turn justification on and off on the Kindle <spit > and I wonder if anyone has found a similar option on the Iriver. I haven't. I'm also wondering how justification can work in an epub book, since the composer doesn't know in what screen format and font the book is going to be displayed. I know that all word processors worth their salt can do conditional hyphenation, so that the word I just used can be hy-phen-a-ted in one of several places, more or less as I just wrote it. But do all word processors use the same symbol for a conditional hyphenation, and do all e-readers understand that. And how about Calibre and Sigil, how would they handle it? I managed to find a thread in the forum about justified vs left alignment, and the readers seem to be more or less evenly split in their preferences with perhaps a slight advantage for justified. Damn, this thread really needs to be posted in several places, but the original question was about the Iriver. So any tips or thoughts on the big problem, or suggestions about where to look for solutions or better places to post, will all be welcome. Thanks in advance. |
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