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1) Physical books have higher resolution than eInk, and 2) they can always hyphenate words since a human can tell it where if the software can't figure it out. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong in my CSS but my Kobo never hyphenates with ragged right. I think it does when lines are set to justified but it's still not as good as a printed book. As a result with justified text you'll see lines that have wonky (very noticeable) spacing between words. With ragged right it just starts a new line when the next word doesn't fit, and there's consistent space between the words. Do a google search for "daisy consortium ragged right" and you'll see the arguments for why it's better.
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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6122...-h/61221-h.htm and scroll down to the body text and use ctl + and notice that the indentation stays the same relative to the text size, about the width of 2 letters. Using percent the indentation would get smaller as you zoom in. Which to me, at least, would be weird. |
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How do Kindles do with hyphenation and justified text? Does it look as good as epub layout looks on my Nook? |
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And if you do not care about KFX, you can use the Hyphenate This! plugin to hyphenate KF8 eBooks. That works well. They one thing you don't get is kerning (i the font supports it).
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jhowell's KFX Output plugin works very well for conversion to KFX and I've used it for all of my Calibre-edited books I load onto my Kindle.
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% is a proportion of the container which is this case is a % of the screen width. So an indent is 5% of the width of the screen and it looks AWFUL!
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https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G169.html Here are some others that I found: https://a11y-101.com/design/text-alignment http://mediaaccess.org.au/accessible...-in-documents/ https://webaim.org/techniques/textlayout/ Last edited by hobnail; 01-23-2020 at 08:23 PM. |
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Try making a simple web page with the lorem ipsum text and set the paragraph indentation at 5% and another page with the indentation at 1.5em. Name the files percent.html and em.html then they'll open in your web browser. If you normally have your browser maximized make it a regular window and resize its width. Watch how the indentation changes in the percent file while it stays the same with the em file. If you prefer that varying indentation then that's fine but you don't want to upload public domain books using percent based indentation here or wherever because it's nonstandard and few people like that. |
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No, I'm using yours. It helps, but kepub still doesn't look as good as ePub on Nook. Thing is, there are other positives about using kepub on Kobo, so I still use the format.
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When I first learned it an em was a vertical measurement, the height of a lowercase m character, and an ex was a horizontal measurement that was the width of a lowercase x. I have no idea how things got messed up. That's assuming I'm remembering correctly; it was long ago.
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