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I do not see why readers cannot implement the LaTex way of doing hyphenation and then the issue of left vs full would be a lot less of an issue. We'd then choose full as we would not have such wide caverns between words.
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i thought the wide caverns were there for holes in the story to fall into ( )
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LaTex is an "off-line" text processor. Its hyphenation algorithm, excellent though it is, could probably not be implemented in real time by the comparatively slow CPUs that eBook readers use.
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Maybe when they start using the latest ARM CPU's with a lot more grunt than the current ARM11's we might get a chance of seeing it happen. I for one would love to be able to just offer a LaTeX source eBook. Of course, you need a lot of room for all the associated TeX files.
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What I'm wondering though now is, why can't something like Calibre do the preprocessing into a high quality output format like PDF that's specifically tailored to the device it's being transferred to? Paul. |
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PDF is not a high quality format. In fact, it's NOT an eBook format. So let's leave PDF out of this. We are talking just reflowing formats like ePub. If we could get hyphenation added to ePub, it would be a lot nicer. Oh, one other thing ADE needs when dealing with full justification and that is variable width spaces. |
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I'm having a hard time crystalising my mental concepts tonight but I'll look forward to coming back to this tomorrow and discussing in more detail.
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The big feature with TeX's engine is that it works on the whole paragraph, rather than the simpler method of working only with a single line.
Using the TeX algorithm, one would still hopefully bring across the ability to use ligatures, interword spacing, character protrusions and maybe even font scaling, without which the TeX algorithm can tend to generate awful results because it gets pushed beyond its limits, however it tends to be these 'finer features' that make the system grind more so than the primary hyphenation algorithm. I wonder also if the parameters would be user-configurable. Paul. |
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