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Old 08-13-2009, 02:04 PM   #207
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
Most of the typographical features are up to the rendering software, not to the ebook itself. Your despising of reflowable formats is starting to look like despising PDF because it doesn't look fine when printed by dot-matrix printers in continuous paper.

You are right in that the current available rendering software is lacking on the typographic front, but again, that's not the ebooks' fault. There's no a priori reason why more advanced typographic features (to the extent they are automatable) can't be implemented in future software.
Yes. There is a reason. It's impossible to do, unless it is done in advance, by a human, for a fixed font-size and layout.

This is again, and again, and again, the whole of my point.

Advances in technology--short of creating intelligent machines--will not help in reaching software/hardware automated typographic professionalism. Hyphenation is the simplest and easiest to understand reason for that.

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