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Old 08-15-2014, 06:51 AM   #371
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
i'd like a checkbox for w&o ( and one for hypen-
ation while we are at it ) those are the 2 things where I currently have to force my preferences into each book with CSS - but I doubt it will happen.

some marketing /UI design expert at Kobo person will say - you can't have an option for widows & orphans because 99% of consumers will not know ( or care) what those are.
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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob View Post
And they'd be correct in saying so. We're the geekiest of their users, the extreme minority, the far less than 1%. It would be foolish for Kobo, or any other company, to cater to us at the expense of their much larger less-geeky base.
That sounds very much like a standard Kobo response. It is problaby true that most readers won't use it and that MR readers are amongst the most tech savvy of the Kobo user base.
And I also think that none of the suggestion mentioned here are going to be implemented even when this can be done quite easily.
Bookeen for example has a feature to turn ligatures on or off (if the font supports the ligatures feature).

Seriously, what I really expect from Kobo is that they fix the font issues of the embedded system fonts where italics are dislayed as bold or vice versa. I really wonder why they can not get that right.

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