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mandy314 · 08-23-2015, 02:47 AM

Thank you, DuckieTigger. (Wonder, how they achieve this)

Now for the pre-rendering. [imho]Putting soft-hyphens or html-tags for hyphenation in the file is a good thing. It is inside the scope of html/css and can bring some advantages: uk vs us-hyphenation, exclusion of names of places/persons etc. Depends how good it is done by publishers/amazon. On the other hand, ligatures and kerning are font-dependent. Not all fonts have the same ligatures - Baskerville doesn't have a ff one, Bookerly has and with that the ffi/ffl triplets. Putting ligature-unicodes in files would break the font independence and may interfere with hyphenation. The same goes for kerning; not all fonts have the same kerning pairs. All things using font information should be rendered on-the-fly.[/imho].
I hope amazon is going along this route. But who knows ...

08-23-2015, 02:47 AM	#261
mandy314 Connoisseur Posts: 71 Karma: 200092 Join Date: Mar 2014 Device: kindle pw1	Thank you, DuckieTigger. (Wonder, how they achieve this) Now for the pre-rendering. [imho]Putting soft-hyphens or html-tags for hyphenation in the file is a good thing. It is inside the scope of html/css and can bring some advantages: uk vs us-hyphenation, exclusion of names of places/persons etc. Depends how good it is done by publishers/amazon. On the other hand, ligatures and kerning are font-dependent. Not all fonts have the same ligatures - Baskerville doesn't have a ff one, Bookerly has and with that the ffi/ffl triplets. Putting ligature-unicodes in files would break the font independence and may interfere with hyphenation. The same goes for kerning; not all fonts have the same kerning pairs. All things using font information should be rendered on-the-fly.[/imho]. I hope amazon is going along this route. But who knows ...