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roger64 · 01-08-2016, 05:54 AM

@alanHD

Thanks for your views. Happy to entertain you. Half of the prize goes to another person... Instead of "moaning" you could write "vomiting" which would make your point even stronger.

Hyphenation

To come back on hyphenation, here is a screenshot of a six inch PDF in French made with Prince. You can see that the word gap seems smaller, and because of this the number of hyphens is bigger. Here I chose a page with a maxi number of seven, while on average it's probably between three and four. The mini-bar is not part of the PDF: it's added by Koreader. There are also some ligatures (ex: Mushafi, en-fin) done by the open-type font used (Linux Libertine otf).

I know there is an option in k2pdfopt (PDF engine used with Koreader) which auto set to small the word gap for CJK (Asian) languages. But the reflow of PDF uses a lot of memory and is probably not advisable for e-ink readers.

For EPUB with Koreader, I would say we have about three hyphens for such a kind of page in French, two or little less for English.

@dickloraine

I did not spot blatant hyphenation mistakes with Koreader (French) as the ones you told us about. The only anomalies I could see were coming from a bad language setting (I had left the English hyphenation setting for reading a French book or the contrary).

01-08-2016, 05:54 AM	#53
roger64 Wizard Posts: 2,625 Karma: 3120635 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kindle PW3 (wifi)	@alanHD Thanks for your views. Happy to entertain you. Half of the prize goes to another person... Instead of "moaning" you could write "vomiting" which would make your point even stronger. Hyphenation To come back on hyphenation, here is a screenshot of a six inch PDF in French made with Prince. You can see that the word gap seems smaller, and because of this the number of hyphens is bigger. Here I chose a page with a maxi number of seven, while on average it's probably between three and four. The mini-bar is not part of the PDF: it's added by Koreader. There are also some ligatures (ex: Mushafi, en-fin) done by the open-type font used (Linux Libertine otf). I know there is an option in k2pdfopt (PDF engine used with Koreader) which auto set to small the word gap for CJK (Asian) languages. But the reflow of PDF uses a lot of memory and is probably not advisable for e-ink readers. For EPUB with Koreader, I would say we have about three hyphens for such a kind of page in French, two or little less for English. @dickloraine I did not spot blatant hyphenation mistakes with Koreader (French) as the ones you told us about. The only anomalies I could see were coming from a bad language setting (I had left the English hyphenation setting for reading a French book or the contrary). Attached Thumbnails Last edited by roger64; 01-08-2016 at 06:15 AM.