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Originally Posted by Psymon
How so? I can still change the font sizes, and allowed hyphenation on most of the "problematic" longer words, and tested the entire text (from beginning to end) at a whole variety of sizes, and it a reflows nicely and, indeed, works quite well -- that's for my modern text, of course.
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Only "dangerously close", not quite there
What I mean is that you want too much control on the typesetting, and that's something that the readers (both software and human) should have a say on.
With a real typesetting engine like (La)TeX, you can control on a global scale how much hyphenation you want, or how much whitespace you allow.
I dream of a day when my ebook reader will let me set up something similar and decide, given my preferred font family and size, what kind of hyphenation I find acceptable (maybe not more that two consecutive hyphenated lines, maybe not fewer than 4 characters from a word left in a line, maybe only if the word spaces are stretched to 1.5 times their natural size...). And I being an idealist after all, keep writing my ebooks so that they'll work in such a day.
It seems CSS3 at some point
offered that kind of control, but not at the current stage. Prince
does offer more options, if you want a PDF.