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Originally Posted by hudson
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.
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Yes your are right. Imho especially the alghorithm used on Sonys PRS devices for LRF-books acts very strange. I can't say exactly whether it's line based or paragraph based, but sometimes it uses a horrible alghorithm for calculating the badness factor (based on your post i guess you now what
badness means in association with such alghorithms).
But even Knuth and Pass' is "only" paragraph-based rather than page-based (agreed it is indeeed far better than most of the alternates).
To be honest we just can't compare and fix differences in the justification for four, sometimes five, different formats on multiple devices for each ebook we create. We uploaders create those ebooks in our spare-time. We use proper hyphenation and avoid excessive word splitting (or we are trying hard to do so) and the ebooks here at MR are usually better formatted than most of the commercial ebooks.