So... who is going to bravely try to address
the hyphenation issue I raised?
Without
at least the hyphenation issue disappearing or being resolved, reflow cannot match the typographic quality of even not particularly brilliantly typeset fixed layout documents.
And please stop with the "do you think PDFs are going to be perfect?" stuff. If professional attention has been given to them, there's no chance they'll be worse than the equivalent ePub. Not to mention that the people on here that are loudest about wanting to be able to edit their eBooks also seem to be the least competent to actually improve said eBooks from a typographic perspective.
Having to convert/alter/edit/adjust/reformat an eBook is an abnormal situation that cannot continue to happen, if eBooks are ever to receive wider adoption. Surely we're not suffering from Stockholm Syndrome so badly that we have to pretend otherwise. If and when publishers start taking eBooks seriously, the average person's fanciful ideas will no longer be able to improve upon the already professionally prepared eBook.
- Ahi