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Old 09-14-2015, 12:14 PM   #9
randich
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
It's always been the case with the Kindle that, if fully justifying a line would result in very large gaps between the words on that line, that particular line is displayed left- rather than fully-justified. I'm pretty sure that this behaviour goes right back to the days of the Kindle 1.
I understand. Perhaps I am asking for an impossible, which is that the hardware Kindle work the same way as the software version of Kindle, which doesn't behaves like that. I was hoping that the latest firmware upgrade would make both versions work the same way.

Please note that, contrary to the behaviour you described, and even using a grotesquely large font, Kindle for iOS, if there are at least two words in a line, will always right-justify:

https://goo.gl/photos/8A7qyw7fQ7PatSEx9

We can call the software Kindle's behaviour a bug, or we can call the hardware version's behaviour a bug. Or we can say simply that they behave different because internally they use different layout engines.

My point is that Amazon publicized the new layout engine as a cross-device uniform improvement, which seems not to be the case, at least in this little issue.

Thanks for you feedback.
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