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Originally Posted by Jellby
There's no reason (other than computational and programming resources) why any ePUB reader could not include that. Those are tasks for the renderer, not features of the format.
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Well, ok, then, I didn't realize that - that makes it even more ridiculous that the various ereaders out there supporting ePub don't implement a rendering engine to handle this, then. But basically, the point still holds: until a quality rendering engine is used, ePub output really looks very poor compared to quality typesetting such as one gets from TeX or InDesign. Even that needs to be hand-tuned for print publication, but I'd be pretty satisfied with just what a good rendering engine would produce on the fly if some reader manufacturer cared enough to implement it. Whatever Sony is using on the 505 really sucks dirt. Just getting full justification won't solve that problem, either, unless they use a renderer that does good hyphenation and paragraph-level formatting à la InDesign.