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Old 05-22-2009, 01:59 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by ahi View Post
It's not terrible, but it does look distinctly and immediately like something typeset by a computer in real-time. In other words: worse than a paper book that could be purchased for far less than what an eBook device costs. I don't think that will fly with the average person.
Note that there is still room for improvement with purely automatic typesetting. The ebook readers could use a paragraph-breaking algorithm similar to the one in TeX instead of simplistic Word-like they're using now, and hyphenation could be greatly improved, and some automatic ligatures used... There are some things that are not possible and would need human intervention, but still without that a much more pleasant typesetting can be achived without sacrificing flexibility.
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