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I mis-typed above. I don't make the side-to-side space compensators in points, I do it in ems, so that when the point size is changed, the compensation adjusts appropriately to the new size.
Real typography can only be achieved with actual full control over the space presented. The current Epub spec is more of a quick and dirty approach. The one under proposal has indications of better control, without much detail (that I've found yet) on how to accomplish that.
On a real web page, scripting solves lots of these problems; I think there's concern about how carried away we could get if scripting took over in e-reading. Don't know why, bad scripting isn't that much worse than other kinds of bad data - bad characters, lack of reflow, etc.
Html5, anyone?
-bjc
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