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Originally Posted by jswinden
I haven't tried the Charis Modified yet, but to my eyes the modified Deja Vu doesn't look much darker or thicker than the supplied Caecilia.
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It wasn't intended to be. I think Caecilia is actually too fat.
The reason I modified DejaVu Serif is me, myself, and I. I like DejaVu Serif; not only the typeface, but also the fact that it has about 3000 glyphs, giving you everything but the kitchen sink. I can strip out any font I want and still have the correct characters for about any language, past and present, should it be required. (If a book uses something like WingDings, then I'm still screwed.)
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I would definitely have to bold it to make it work.
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With all due respect, but I think the fatness you require a font to be is probably unique. I don't think you will ever find a font that will have its normal typeface be as bold as a "normal bold" font, and the bold typeface be bolder still.
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It is also a tad wider per character, meaning you get less words per line. That makes a huge difference on a 6" screen, especially since the PW2 doesn't hyphenate. I hate large gaps in justified lines and large gaps at the end of left aligned lines.
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Nope; it's exactly as wide as Caecilia, but has less line height. At size 4, which I use most, DejaVu Serif fits 3 more lines of text onto the screen as compared to Caecilia.
However, it Caecilia Condensed makes it up by using very narrow letters; it fits one more line as compared to DejaVu Serif. See the attachments. (DejaVu Serif, Caecilia, and Caecilia Condensed, in that order.) I am thinking about modifying DejaVu Serif Condensed, which I estimate will fit 2, maybe three more lines of text as compared to Caecilia Condensed.
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Originally Posted by booklover6
I will be rooting the instant a user friendly root is available, just so I can get hyphenation. What is wrong with these companies making a fine product with so many flaws!
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Jswinden, and Booklover6: run your books through the Hyphenate This! plugin before you upload them. It can use an OpenOffice hyphenation dictionary to put in soft hyphens, in EPUB and AZW3. The Kindle Paperwhite supports this. You can see this in the attachment already:
1st: be-fore
2nd: Whis-per, be-fore
3rd: dart-ing, re-ceding
With regard to companies leaving out obvious features: just because it's cheaper to develop and easier to support if you have less features. If they put in auto-hyphenation, they would need to do that for all languages, or make statements like: "Supports auto-hyphenation, but only in English, German and French."