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Originally Posted by pdurrant
No need to use TeX for input. What is needed is for the layout engines for the ebooks readers to be improved to do proper paragraph and page level optimisations, including justification, hyphenation and widow/orphan control.
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ADE already does fairly decent widow/orphan control. It won't allow single lines of a paragraph to stand alone at the end of a page or at the beginning of a page. The result of this is that you may end up with 2 blank lines at the end of a page (since the bumped paragraph would consist of 3 lines). Something they could do is modulate the leading a tiny bit to spread everything out to make those 2 missing lines less noticeable.
However, what's really needed is a decent hyphenation engine. Justification is fairly easy to implement, and
good justification is entirely dependent on good hyphenation.
And aren't the processors in most readers about the same as what you'd find in a PDA?