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Originally Posted by RobertDDL
I still say that the only software that's really able to do this, at least for the time being, is the human brain, and this takes a long time to do it.
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Even a long time ago a good program (early versions of inDedsign, oe LaTeX) produced *much* better results that current generations of e-ink readers that make absolutely no attempt to balance the whitespace on neighboring lines.
You still need a human hand to produce great results, but all I am asking is less atrocious output.
At the time when I dabbled in Desktop Publishing a typical workstation (high-end 486, 8MB RAM) had slower processor and waaay less memory than a modest e-ink reader. And it was enough to run fancy programs that at very least tried to do basic things like word hyphenation (that Kindle doesn't do in this time and age - but that is a different rant).