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Originally Posted by ElaHuguet
I'd love to have your opinion on the file.
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As I don't have an iLiad yet, it's difficult to evaluate how well it works on that device. All I can do is look at the pages on a PC screen. 100% size looks too small (though the iLiad resolution hopefully fixes that), so I use 120%.
Quick impression:
Word spacing seems to be the biggest problem. Either ragged right + manual tweaking of the worst remaining places to even things out, or keep justification but do automatic hyphenation run, possibly followed by proof-reading to check that it didn't end up too badly.
Para indent feels a tad too large, and pages with much dialogue feel restless (and in a few places a very short preceding line looks odd). Perhaps smaller indent: 1 em (i.e. body size)?
There are some places with spaces after em dashes ... should probably be closed up. (I bet there are a few with space before, too). And there are one or two quotations inside quotations where the outer double quote needs a hair space to set off the immediately following inner single quote (p. 125, l. 2
for instance). And one or two places where small caps probably should be used (italics in letter text (p. 5, l. 12: But I _must_ have ...)
Further tweaking is possible, but until word spacing is decent, I don't think it matters that much. (E.g. vertical ellipses, poetry, letters, perhaps some added tracking of all caps words, etc.)
And I have a nagging feeling that the typeface really needs more space between lines ... perhaps it's an effect of the already wide word spacing. Century Schoolbook is fairly wide already, and that width needs to be balanced. I wonder how this would look in Georgia ...
ADDED LATER: something like this, I suspect ... (see attachment). I've just taken the first two pages of chapter 2, and tried them out in some variations.
(a) Georgia 10/12, ragged right. InDesign helps a lot with evening out ragged setting: don't expect Word to do as well. A shade to tight, I think. (b) Same again, this time with left justification. Ragged looks better. (c) Same as b, but 10/12.2 which is an improvement on the page. (d) 10/12.5 looks even better, but wih less text on the page, so perhaps (e) 9.5/12 which doesn't work too well on a PC screen, but hopefully will stand up better on the iLiad.