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Originally Posted by ixtab
- Second, for some reason that only the developers know, lines are not always filling the block size. This results in a really ugly layout, where most of the lines are "block-aligned", but where some lines are shorter than the rest.
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This is IMO actually a quite ingenious solution when having the preconditions "no hyphenation" and "wanting justified lines".
Without hyphenation and "stupid" justification you often get really ugly holes in stretched lines. That is of course more of a problem in languages like German where there can be quite long words.
So they solved a problem "ugly holes in justified text" by going down a road that - to my knowledge - no typographer has ever done as every typographer knows how to hyphenate. Strange and annoying but still a creative solution.
BTW, if you look at the promotional images of the Kindle Touch, you'll see that the English images are carefully chosen
not to display this pseudo-justification:
http://is.gd/fsudaS
Whereas the German images show the complete fail in regards to hiding the bad typography:
http://is.gd/UxQN7K And this in the country that was once a forerunner of good typography. Ah well, it has been going downhill anyway with typography after Gutenberg printed his first book.
