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notimp · 05-04-2012, 06:02 PM

@InsulinJunkie72: Thanks for the confirmation and the clarification of line-height not being supported.

I just embarked on a CSS3 crash course and as far as i can see the new justify behaviour seems to be standard compliant. Full width expansion (on text-align justify) regardless of the increase of word-spacing (quadruple, quintuple the normal spacing, why not?!) seems to be the default. It may or may not be reigned in by the new word-spacing property which can be set to {(optimum) min max}, but I just tried it to no avail in an azw3 (checked with the Kindle Previewer).

This is a HUGE oversight on Amazons part if it turnes out to be true. There are languages (take German for example) where the average wordlength is higher than in english, combine it with the fact that the Kindle still doesn't support hyphanation, and top it off with the new KF8 behavior of just expanding word-spacing without any limits just to get the text justified over the full width of the page, and you end up with a not at all pleasant to read textlayout...

*facepalm*

05-04-2012, 06:02 PM	#73
notimp Addict Posts: 248 Karma: 892441 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: K2i	@InsulinJunkie72: Thanks for the confirmation and the clarification of line-height not being supported. I just embarked on a CSS3 crash course and as far as i can see the new justify behaviour seems to be standard compliant. Full width expansion (on text-align justify) regardless of the increase of word-spacing (quadruple, quintuple the normal spacing, why not?!) seems to be the default. It may or may not be reigned in by the new word-spacing property which can be set to {(optimum) min max}, but I just tried it to no avail in an azw3 (checked with the Kindle Previewer). This is a HUGE oversight on Amazons part if it turnes out to be true. There are languages (take German for example) where the average wordlength is higher than in english, combine it with the fact that the Kindle still doesn't support hyphanation, and top it off with the new KF8 behavior of just expanding word-spacing without any limits just to get the text justified over the full width of the page, and you end up with a not at all pleasant to read textlayout... facepalm Last edited by notimp; 05-04-2012 at 06:15 PM.