* ebooks @ 2015-08-07 7:44 Hans Hagen 2015-08-07 11:14 ` ebooks Jan Tosovsky 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Hans Hagen @ 2015-08-07 7:44 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Hi, In 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 ...) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: ebooks 2015-08-07 7:44 ebooks Hans Hagen @ 2015-08-07 11:14 ` Jan Tosovsky 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Jan Tosovsky @ 2015-08-07 11:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 'mailing list for ConTeXt users' [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1253 bytes --] 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 [-- Attachment #2: winmail.dat --] [-- Type: application/ms-tnef, Size: 2738 bytes --] [-- Attachment #3: Type: text/plain, Size: 485 bytes --] ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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