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Old 04-16-2010, 08:35 AM   #4
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Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20
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Originally Posted by charleski View Post
If there were just one reader that had software which would do full justification with hyphenation, then that would be an immediate first choice. Unfortunately none of them do
PocketBook does.
If you load third-party version of FBReader you can even fine-tune hyphenation. You can tell the reader what is the minimum length of word that can be hyphenated. You can set any justification, you can set page margins, line spacing and much more. You can even set how much the space between words can be compressed when the device does full justification with hyphenation. Oh ... and PocketBook knows hyphenation rules for various languages.

It still isn't LaTeX quality or InDesign quality typography(*), but it is pretty good. And if you DO require typographically perfect document you can make custom pdf file in LaTex or InDesign or whatever, formatted exactly for the size of your screen, with whatever fancy features you wish (ligatures, typographical color evenness, hanging capitals at the beginning of chapter, handmade illuminations, you name it).

(*) still no widows and orphans control, it does not evaluate justification of line in relation to n lines above or below to avoid rivers.
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