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Originally Posted by sherman
I don't think they have the ability to improve typography, at least not without spending lots of development time (and therefore $$).
The problem is that core rendering engines for both epub (RMSDK) and kepub (QtWebKit) have been abandoned by their respective creators. As far as I know, RMSDK is basically on life support, and Qt completely abandoned QtWebkit, to the point they removed it from later Qt5 releases. And there is no (production level) drop-in replacement for QtWebKit.
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Originally Posted by GERGE
I think RMSDK is quite good. It supports kerning and ligatures, its rendering is nice with spacing, justification and hyphenation. Drop caps and such are mostly CSS based anyway.
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Yeah, I have no complaints about RMSDK layout. It's Kobo's kepub that needs some love. Kepub has nice features that ePub doesn't have and it is Kobo's preferred format. So I wish they would clean it up some.
Fans here are enabling ligatures, providing better hyphenation and are now working on character spacing. Is Kobo incapable of doing the same work that three or four outsiders have done for free?