From: "Jan Tosovsky" <j.tosovsky@email.cz>
To: "'mailing list for ConTeXt users'" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: ebooks
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 13:14:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11399.6112290353$1438946143@news.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55C461C0.3050301@wxs.nl>
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On 2015-08-07 Hans Hagen wrote:
>
> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/amazon-kindle-paperwhite,review-2967.html
>
> I read under "Advanced Typesetting"
>
> ... improved character placement and spacing, with advanced kerning and
> ligatures ...books with this enhanced typesetting are not easy to find
>
> which makes me wonder: how can an html file (just a char stream)
> determine in an epub that kerning/ligaturing is disabled By default?
>
> (I can imagine a css enabling something but still ...)
>
There was lot of work in W3 recently dedicated in CSS for paged media. Even
further development of mature XSL-FO has been discontinued in favor of
HTML+CSS.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/01/designing-for-print-with-css/
And many publishers believe this is the future. While many features are not
available in browsers yet, there are corresponding JavaScript
modules/polyfills which mimic the intended rendering so nothing stops the
publishing industry from migrating their workflows into the new standards.
One of such JavaScript framework is vivliostyle.js - http://vivliostyle.com/
Back to the original question, enabling/disabling font features can be done
using CSS font-feature:
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#font-rend-props
Jan
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