04-29-2022, 10:18 AM | #1 |
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Adjusting word spacing for justified text – kepub
I notice that the word spacing for justified text while reading kepub is noticably larger than for epub. Not so much for English, but very noticeable when reading Norwegian ebooks (also with a hyphenation dictionary installed). Is it possible to reduce the word spacing somehow? (For some reason Norwegian books will only justify for kepub, not epub).
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04-29-2022, 11:51 AM | #3 |
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Oh thanks, that does seem to eliminate the worst of it.
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I use "Set KePub hyphenation" along with a hyphenation dictionary, which then lets me keep ligatures/kerning by activating "KePub stylesheet additions - optimizeLegibility"
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I use the OptimizeSpeed patch myself. I hate hyphenation, and care nothing about kerning/ligatures. Too large spaces between words do bother me.
And no, I wouldn't left-align my text if my life depended on it. |
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WOW! You right algin your text? That's going to be really awful to read a book that way.
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Personally, I do like to read with justified text and hyphenation. That's why I created some better hyphenation dictionaries for Kobo and they do work better then the ones that come with with the firmware.
Better hyphenation dictionaries https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=252405 |
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This in addition to using bookerly has virtually eliminated weird spacing for me on a Sage. Though I use the kobo config file method not patching to get legibility.
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Thanks, that does make it look better. The remaining 'pain' point seems to be the rather limited Norwegian hyphenation dictionary I installed. I just made it from Libreoffice's Hunspell dictionary. But at least it looks OK now. I might post it in JSWolf's thread later. |
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Hyphenation and huge word spacing are worse than no kerning/ligatures. IMHO, of course.
As to Bookerly, never could stand it. But the optimizeSpeed patch has reduced the weird spacing even in kepubs with fully justified and non-hyphenated text on my Sage. As to the smaller screen of the Libra 2, I read mostly epubs there, so the issue doesn't exist. |
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