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Originally Posted by shalym
Actually, it *is* still happening with hyphenation and KFX (enhanced) typesetting. This is a screenshot from a book bought recently, in KFX format, downloaded directly from Amazon. This is at font size 9. I'm also attaching a screenshot of the same page set to "ragged right".
Shari
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I had to take some time and come back to it, to really take a look.
Realistically--there's nothing that can be done on that page. Without hand-tracking/kerning the text, there's naught that can be done. Look at each line and the ensuing word on the following line.
For example, first line, second paragraph--the word that would be "hyphenated" on that next line, is "life." Not a great candidate. Following line, it's "Damnation" and there aren't enough characters for it. Following line? More.
And so on. By making that font size 9, which is pretty big, there's not much that anyone could do. Even someone trying to hand-kern it would run into problems, at that font size, that line-length, etc. You've got a line-length of 32 characters, which is
half the norm. That limits what you can do.
(I also note that I see zero hyphenation. Now, it's one page. I can't tell if it's hyphenated on the page before or after; but there's none there. I have seen any number of books with hyphenation turned off, and if that's the case in that particular book, not much that Enhanced Typesetting could do. As I said, I'm not seeing a lot of hyphenation opportunities there, of course, but...I did want to mention that authors DO turn off hyphenation all the time, prior to submitting their books. I can't tell you how many people have come through my shop who simply cannot abide hyphens and insist that we turn them off.)
Sure, enhanced typesetting is "better," but it's not
magic. It can only do so much, and trying to make a line
that short work in a justified environment, with words that don't lend themselves to being hyphenated...I'm not sure if I were faced with that paragraph and those limitations,
myself, how much could be done, typographically speaking.
Hitch