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Old 10-21-2009, 10:46 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by tovare View Post
Quality hyphenation should be possible in the Epub standard at least, by inserting soft hyphens character: 0xAD or the entity * Not sure if it works on my sony reader. The Apache project has an XML hypenhation engine based on the TeX-engine which has some quality hyphenhation pattern files for many languages. Since EPub is XML, I guess it should be possible to run it through such a tool prior to publishing.
Yes, in the future all file formats and all protocols will be perfect, this is well-known

However, in the here and now, both the princeXML > PDF and LaTeX (and derivatives) > PDF routes offer pretty hyphenation, kerning, ligatures and full justification, epub does not (at least on the prs-505, I have no other readers to test on)
Last edited by acidzebra; 10-21-2009 at 10:51 AM. Reason: added prs-505 qualifier
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