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Old 03-18-2024, 09:41 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives View Post
What does "better job" mean in this context? I don't see any weird spacing between words on my Libra. I know that if you enable ligatures you can get weird spacing between the letters of a word, but I use the default rendering mode (optimizeSpeed), which doesn't have that problem.

Also, how do you disable hyphenation, anyway? Do you replace the default hyphenation dictionary with an empty one somehow?
I also use optimizeSpeed. What I mean is that the epub renderer is capable of micro-justification, which makes the word spacing more even and less noticeable with fully justified, non-hyphenated text. The kepub renderer doesn't do micro-justification, and so the spacing between words might get rather large in some cases, if you don't use hyphenation. Especially on smaller screens.

I disable hyphenation in the book css (yes, every book; I edit them all anyway, so disabling hyphenation is only a very small additional chore). First I remove the code that's related to hyphenation in the css and after that I add the following to the body css:
Code:
-epub-hyphens: none;
adobe-hyphenate: none;
-webkit-hyphens: none;
-moz-hyphens: none;
hyphens: none;
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