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Old 12-11-2007, 11:20 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by slayda View Post
As I see it (as an engineer - not a writer, grammarian, or publisher), the main reasons for "some" of these failings are;
  1. Limited fonts available
  2. Mostly fully justified rather than left justified
  3. Limited viewing space (exacerbated by reflowing text at different sizes).

Advances in software & CPU capacity can address the first. The three taken together are, I believe, the main things that make ebooks have a "not perfect" appearance. {Please note that pbooks also have a "not perfect" appearance even though they do not necessarily suffer from these disadvantages.}

In addition, I tend to prefer the straight quotes.
Just add in the other fonts needed to make a true font family. That problem will then be solved. Full justified would not be much of an isue if we have hyphenation support. And it would also fix the spacing with larger text sizes as well.
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