* ebooks
@ 2015-08-07 7:44 Hans Hagen
2015-08-07 11:14 ` ebooks Jan Tosovsky
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2015-08-07 7:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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
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* Re: ebooks
2015-08-07 7:44 ebooks Hans Hagen
@ 2015-08-07 11:14 ` Jan Tosovsky
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From: Jan Tosovsky @ 2015-08-07 11:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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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