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Originally Posted by Psymon
Well, I don't know too many people who think that more hyphenation is better, where it's done not because it's actually needed, but simply because the software see that it "can" hyphenate, and so it does, and as a result there's gratuitous hyphenation all over the place that actually interferes with ease-of-readability and overall visual appeal.
Of course, that latter, as you say, is a judgement call -- but as I said, I don't know too many people (if any) who think that more hyphenation is better, just because you (or the software) "can."  |
More - is rarely better
But a forced (upon you)
cure is (IMHO) never
(and having no dash is really terrible
)
Take the K4 (I have one). 40px of wasted screen , MINIMUM l/r margins, space, is not pleasing. to me. (I have a fragile hack in place that sets it to 10).
I love my books to look nice,
Not a stark, Joe Friday style:
"Just the words, M'am. Just the words."
.
But I also understand that some of the tricks-o-the-trade Typesetters (Cold or Hot) used when letters stayed
put, no longer apply when the page can flow.
IMHO Fixed layout should be reserved for those extra special cases , where free flowing text makes a hash out of the meaning of the work.
I have also seen the mess MRSDK can make using Widows and Orphans
. The
cure can backfire. IMHO Avoid using force.
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Apple is NOT the metric for E-Books.
Just say i-won't! force the Apple way on others. There are still more
other brand-models in use as reading devices than there are from the big(-headed) Apple.
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