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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Wow what you've described seems to require an awful lot of labor on the part of e-book creators, but I guess if you want a layout by hand, then an awful lot of labor is what you're in for.
Go for it, I'll be interested to see what you can come up with.
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If you have somewhat decent source material, it could be as simple as
source (pref. HTML or RTF) > pacify.py > TeX document > PDF with little or no manual intervention. For perfectionists like the typographers here this will never be an option but for us joe schmoe users it would definitely yield a vastly better-looking book to read with little extra work.
I've been toying with this process for the past week and the custom 505-formatted PDFs with full justification and proper hyphenation, my fave font and so on (all this from a properly chosen /preamble and document layout) are really worth it IMHO.