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Originally Posted by netseeker
We made an poll on this within the german sub-forum some weeks ago because we were unsure if we should include "text-align: justify" in the ePubs we are publishing here at MR. The overwhelming majority of the participants seem to prefer justificated text.
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I prefer justified text if it is done right. I use LaTeX to typeset all of the documents for my iLiad and Sony to take advantage of the superior algorithms and research that goes into proper line breaking and justification. These include avoiding rivers, avoiding excessive word splitting, proper hyphenation, and microtype optimizations to create optically better alignment.
The naive greedy algorithms used by most of the formats produces a definitely sub-standard layout. It is not as bad on wide screens like the iLiad, but as the page width shrinks to Sony PRS-505 sizes, the rivers of whitespace become unreadable. Why more programs don't use Knuth and Plass' algorithms has always puzzled me.