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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Your situation, is similar to trying to make the "Word" document look nicer, by adding manual hyphens everywhere. You want to nitpick every single little thing.... but then you change one variable (font size, page size, margins, font), and all those manual hyphens you added will be clogging things up and making things WORSE, compared to if you just left the algorithm alone.
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You kinda said something similar before, and I'm left with this feeling that perhaps you don't understand what it was that I was doing (and, indeed, accomplishing). All those variables you mentioned were actually relatively irrelevant, you could change any of them and things still worked out beautifully. Just because I
allow hyphenation (if it's necessary) for a specific word doesn't mean that you'll end up with a hyphen in it, when it's not needed (like, if the word is right in the middle of a particular line, not at the end/beginning). And you can change any of those variables you mentioned and everything still came out wonderfully -- the only difference is that instead of having relatively small/short words being hyphenated all over the place, it was only the larger ones that did.
And I
did test it out, at all the various font sizes available on the iPad, as well as in both 2-page landscape and 1-page portrait mode -- and please don't yell at me re my using the iPad for testing that out in.
By going through
all the font sizes, and in particular in 2-page landscape orientation (with its shorter line length), I think that pretty much covered most scenarios one might encounter, regardless of device. If you're imagining bigger margins, well, bumping up the font size pretty much emulates that, for example.
In any case, I have already conceded to give in and just give it up, and not do it the way that I was -- but while I say that, I think you're actually mistaken about the detrimental effect that it has (and also, indeed, mistaken about the
positive effect it can potentially have). If you don't believe me, well, just try it on any book of your own, doing what I was doing before -- which, with the appropriate regex S&R, should be a breeze to do.
Like I said, I'm "giving it up" because of all the admonitions that I've gotten to do so -- but I really do have to wonder if, in fact, I'm not making a mistake in doing so. I really can't imagine how changing any of those "variables" you mentioned would end up with disastrous results -- on the contrary, I think what I was doing still would beautifully, regardless of how one change any of those variables.
And that's why I'm wondering,
now, if I'm
now not making a mistake in giving it up.