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Soft hyphens let the book tell the reader how to hyphenate, which is cheap, easy, and an editorial process. |
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The thing is, people who create there own eBooks are not going to want to be having to add soft hyphens. That's just too much of a bother.
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The things that could improve for me are: hyphenation, pictures, and indented passages (such as long quotes) because they sometimes format oddly when they're full justified. That might be related to hyphenation. Also, footnotes/endnotes feel a bit clumsy. I want a little window to pop up like when I look something up in the dictionary.
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Currently, the problem is that ereaders don't consistently support soft hyphens. Whether or not it would be "easy" to add the Tex hyphenation routine to readers, authors and publishers should be able to establish specific hyphenations for unique words--character and place names, scientific or magical terms, neologisms that haven't been added to the protocols yet, and so on. |
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Why wouldn't it be automated? Unless you're slinging raw html (name one author who does that), you're never going to know. Authors write in word processors. The output is then processed and processed and processed, and the end result is HTML. There's no reason why there couldn't or shouldn't be a hyphenation pass somewhere in there. Authors without editors can just use the automated output as-is (which would be no worse than existing readers that do auto hyphenation). Authors with editors can and should do a final editorial pass to make sure things are hyphenating correctly and to add exceptions where hyphenation is not desired or where automated hyphenation did the wrong thing.
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I know plenty of authors who hand-code their HTML files, or at least, design them in a text-editing program with extensive search/replace options. However, we'd find a macro that inserts the hyphenations. Quote:
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soft hyphenation....meh....I just left-align and I don't have to worry about it at all!
If I saw a whole bunch of & shy ; in an html file, the first thing I would do is delete them all...that would cut the file size in half... |
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Apart from that I fully share your opinion about animation etc. in books: It ruins legibility and concentration on the textflow. The only way to animate a book and still making it to be a book is to throw it. Quote:
Poor handling of whitespace in images and therein resulting poor (or none) text wrapping around them is a software weakness. The epub specs state OpenType as supported font encoding method. Nevertheless there is no way to adress and use alternative glyphsets of a font such as monospace numbers, Dropcap capitals etc. TeX has a method to adress alt. characters. Quote:
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The most logical solution would be the following ruleset: 1. use hyphenation dictionary equal to books lang metadata 2. Differing fragments wrapped in [ lang=langcode ] and a closing tag invoke use of different dictionary. 3. Soft hyphens neologisms, names and similar only. |
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While I don't usually just start with only text, I have taken a number of eBooks and reformatted them so they look (internally) nothing like what I started with. |
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