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Originally Posted by hudson
These include avoiding rivers, avoiding excessive word splitting, proper hyphenation, and microtype optimizations to create optically better alignment.
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I don't think there's anything in (La)TeX to avoid rivers, other than a human operator checking the output and maybe tweaking the parameters. For the rest, I agree.
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The naive greedy algorithms used by most of the formats produces a definitely sub-standard layout.
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I agree too, but the algorithms are implemented by the reader software. I doubt the
formats have any specification for the line-breaking algorithm. In principle, an e-book reader program could use a TeX-like breaking algorithm, and would give definitely better output.