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Old 11-23-2009, 02:36 PM   #112
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Originally Posted by EatingPie View Post
Can you explain what you mean here?

Justification is actually quite a simple algorithm. It was one of my first programming projects!

Also, I have been using LRF exclusively for 3 years, and have never had eye strain. And the books I generate from are often exactly the same HTML as ePUBs.

Mainly I'm curious as to how justified ePUBs would cause eye strain.

-Pie
It doesn't cause me eye strain per se, but I find that fully justified text on such a low resolution display as the Sony's is unattractive.

The reason for this is since the pixel count of the display is low, small text doesn't look good to me so I'm forced to use larger text. With the larger text, there are fewer words per line so there is less opportunity for justification algorithms to adjust spacing in an attractive way.

Also, it looks to me like the Sony LRF renderer either doesn't adjust inter-letter/intra-word at all or has very tight constraints when doing so, making it even more difficult to space the words attractively.
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