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Originally Posted by Peter Sorotokin
Yes, it is not yet supported. We'll have it eventually, of course.
The reason is that we need to pull new low-level line layout code which would support bidi, glyph composition, etc. and we are hesitant to add features to the current branch.
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Sure I can understand why you're hesitant to add new features to a stable branch.
There's a lot of newspapers in France working on e-paper editions, I'm sure that they would be amazed by the sort of things possible with proper use of CSS+XSL-FO in a mobile environment. Multi-columns layouts with justification and hyphenation that would reflow with a different number of columns... That's something that would be gorgeous to demo.
Hyphenation is the main reason why I still use PDF instead of another format on the current crop of e-paper devices. I can't help thinking that the text looks like a screen instead of a book, without some of these basic typesetting rules.