Comments on: Hyphenation in e-books – where is it? http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/28/hyphenation-in-e-books-where-is-it/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:01:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Hadrien Gardeur http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/28/hyphenation-in-e-books-where-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1016307 Hadrien Gardeur Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:44:22 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=17904#comment-1016307 Stanza supports hyphenation and you can even select which hyphenation patterns (language) you'd like to use. It's on Adobe's TO-DO list for DE too. Stanza supports hyphenation and you can even select which hyphenation patterns (language) you’d like to use.

It’s on Adobe’s TO-DO list for DE too.

]]> By: Chris http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/28/hyphenation-in-e-books-where-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1016167 Chris Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:15:18 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=17904#comment-1016167 As someone who uses LaTeX to typeset his documents, the algorithms to do hyphenation are extremely difficult to get right. LaTeX is generally taken as the gold standard but there are newer ones. They are amazingly complex beasts when trying to solve for the general case. As someone who uses LaTeX to typeset his documents, the algorithms to do hyphenation are extremely difficult to get right. LaTeX is generally taken as the gold standard but there are newer ones. They are amazingly complex beasts when trying to solve for the general case.

]]> By: Greg Schofield http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/28/hyphenation-in-e-books-where-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1016114 Greg Schofield Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:56:51 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=17904#comment-1016114 Hyphenation is simple to implement, but only if publishers run their works through a hyphenation dictionary and have the soft hyphens in-place -- on the fly hyphenation is needlessly complex. Hyphenation is simple to implement, but only if publishers run their works through a hyphenation dictionary and have the soft hyphens in-place — on the fly hyphenation is needlessly complex.

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