I'm terrible
with hyphenation, so I knew I needed a copyeditor who would notice those errors.
On the iPad, this then allows iBooks to support
hyphenation in v1.2...
It also employs new features including bookmark, dictionary, full - text search, copy and paste, day / night themes, table of content, progress bar,
hyphenation support as well as sharing your favorite texts / quotes in a book.
Full justification
without hyphenation inevitably results in unsightly gaps between words on a few lines each page.
A lot of software improvement: — option to switch off footers and headers in EPUB and KEPUB files; — text rotation (landscape mode) in EPUBs; — automate
hyphenation for non-English e-books; — PDF support (for reading not for displaying); — dictinaries other than English; — Send - to - Kobo wireless service for user's e-books.
There are 30 questions which cover: Mail Merge Paragraph formatting Line spacing
Automatic Hyphenation Tables Subscript / Superscript Bullet points Dates And more....
Publisher mistakes such
as hyphenation errors, formatting issues or misplaced graphics which occurred during production must also be noted on the proof form, but will not count against the first 50 free corrections.
The previous problem with reading on the older software was that the Paperwhite forced a central justified layout without
proper hyphenation.
It will
add hyphenation to break words, create paragraphs with consistent lines, and adjust the spacing between words.
Justified text on a screen the iPhone's size requires often - ridiculous word spacing
when hyphenation isn't available, and indeed iBooks doesn't hyphenate.
The script Craig wrote uses a JavaScript
hyphenation library whose main advantages are cross-browser support and multi-lingual support.
In addition to that new display, Amazon's also turned on its new Bookerly font — specifically designed by Amazon for reading — by default and completely redesigned page layout with a new typesetting engine,
using hyphenation so you're not left with awkward spacing and so it feels more like a book rather than a jumbled up digital mess of words.
The device has full support for most text formats,
correct hyphenation in the texts in Russian.
But it's not just «misspellings» that Amazon is flagging, it's poor formatting: line breaks where they shouldn't exist,
forced hyphenation in inappropriate locations, erroneously swapped characters like zeros for «o's.
Perplexing
hyphenation aside, Diesel say this app will serve as a «wingman» to the wearer by providing important notifications in a «distinctly Diesel way».
I've written often about the lack of iPad font choices, the
terrible hyphenation and justification, the ragged word spacing and the apparent lack of any controls to create something that just looks decent.
Better hyphenation (kepub reader can hyphenate words in the wrong place if they have trailing punctuation)
Keen readers will probably be more excited by the
improved hyphenation and justification, which looks less ramshackle around the edges at all but the largest font sizes, while ligatures and kerning have been refined, too.
I'm not saying
cluster hyphenation is any kind of a solution to the problem, but you have to admit that it's not totally unreasonable to think that patriarchal naming traditions ARE a problem....
As a (non-book) designer, I see things like widows and orphans (including widowed syllables
following hyphenation!)
It's elegant because it's been designed specifically for the Mac, and puts an emphasis on
highlighting hyphenation, columns, automatic text scrolling and user - friendly page and chapter navigation.
The KFX format is also «pre-rendered» to some extent, such as having
hyphenation pre calculated and added to the text as either soft - hyphens or html tags.
There's a new font called Bookerly that's easier to read, plus a new layout engine that
introduces hyphenation for more logical spacing.
As Friedlander says to Penn, such issues can include running heads that appear on chapter pages (and shouldn't),
lost hyphenation (leaving «big spaces in the lines»), and, in many cases, no copyright page.
You can change: • font size, font family, sideload own fonts • emboldened text (similar with Kobo TypeGenius) • layout: enable / disable Publisher Styles • text alignment: left, right, justified • enable /
disable hyphenation • enable / disable ligatures • show / hide header (shows title of the book) • show / hide pageometer / footer [show or hide pageometer (current page vs total number of pages)-RSB- • accelerometer (switch the screen orientation to portrait or landscape mode)
And they'd use the return key (or possibly the shift - return combination) to force a line break in the middle of the paragraph — to
avoid hyphenation, for example.
Better screen: — LRB -(and
ePub hyphenation support would convert it, no doubt, to a new reader for me to buy and test.
It doesn't require us to worry
about hyphenation or come up with a policy for how to handle widows and orphans.
In this article from The Guardian the author (and commenters) talks about their experience reading Kindle eBooks and how images, typos and mis -
hyphenations ruin the experience.
We have to do typesetting,
check hyphenation, choose between widows and orphans versus squared - up pages, etc..
We create Professional print quality PDF by following all the steps involved in typesetting (Choosing a font, fixing widows and orphans,
hyphenation violations and so on).
Some eBook reading systems will
apply hyphenation to longer words to make the text better fit on the screen.
The problem is that when a book is saved as a PDF, the underlying text within the book is changed — page breaks in the PDF add returns in the text,
if hyphenation was used those hyphens are embedded in the text, and sometimes the headers and / or footers are even inserted.
Like the current Paperwhite, this new ereader will also soon receive the new font and feature update that includes a new more readable font and
enhanced hyphenation and page layout features.