Re:Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook...
by _ph_ on Sunday November 22, 2015 @05:40AM
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Is it me or is it odd, that a reader called "Hyphen" doesn't seem to offer hyphenation? Especially as the screenshot shown on the page shows rather large spacing used for block setting the text.
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Re:Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook...
by sirn on Sunday November 22, 2015 @06:18AM
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There seems to be Hyphenation support but not on by default. (I downloaded and tried.)
Re:Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook...
by mattcurtis on Sunday November 22, 2015 @09:50AM
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There is absolutely hyphenation support - you can toggle it on or off in settings, but it is off by default.
Re:Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook...
by lobster_johnson on Sunday November 22, 2015 @02:22PM
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It's odd that your first and most prominent screenshot has such bad typography:
regulation the circulation.
Bad typography is my main quibble with the Kindle app. It's been awful for years.Have you looked into a better flow algorithm, such as the Knuth/Plass [1] algorithm from TeX?
[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.4380111102/ab...
Re:Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook...
by mattcurtis on Sunday November 22, 2015 @03:31PM
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That screenshot has justified text, you can use left, right, and center alignments as well.
Re:Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook...
by lobster_johnson on Sunday November 22, 2015 @03:46PM
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That's not really a solution. That will create an awkwardly ragged right margin. Justified text is more readable and makes text look less messy.
Re:Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook...
by mattcurtis on Sunday November 22, 2015 @05:32PM
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I like the Knuth/Plass technique as well, it creates much more uniform and visually appeasing line margins. The reason something like it would be so difficult to implement is that it requires heavy geometric processing every time the content reflows, which would impact Hyphen's performance a lot. Another issue I see is that it would pollute an ePub's DOM more than I'd care for.