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It's completely doable, as Eucalyptus shows on the iPhone. There's absolutely no excuse for not doing proper typesetting, other than they simply don't notice th

by bonaldi 16y ago

It's completely doable, as Eucalyptus shows on the iPhone. There's absolutely no excuse for not doing proper typesetting, other than they simply don't notice the lack of it. I expect that of Sony, but I'm surprised that Apple of all companies don't have people that really care about these details on the team.

tumult 16y ago
Eucalyptus does not look particularly great to me. Is it using a custom algorithm?
- bonaldi 16y ago
  It is, yes, even down to adding typographer's quotes where the original lacks them (another iBooks oversight). It's not as good at H&J as you would be doing it by hand, but I've yet to see a river anything like those that snake through iBooks pages.
- Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
  According to the About text Eucalyptus relies on a customized version of libhyphenate, plus a number of other open components (including LinuxLibertine as the display typeface). I love the look of Eucalyptus and haven't seen any other reader that comes close (particularly at the iPhone/iPod screen size and resolution, and ESPECIALLY given that as far as I can tell they use the .txt versions of the Gutenberg files). It's not that they've sacrificed the right goats to the gods of text presentation magic, it's just that they actually give a damn what the output looks like.
CamperBob 16y ago
I'm surprised that Apple of all companies don't have people that really care about these details on the team That's an extremely applicable point in many respects. I'm surprised that Apple of all companies don't have people -- senior ones at that -- that are on the verge of open revolt over the direction (http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/06/eff-nothing-new-about-iphones-closed-platform http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/06/eff-nothing-new-about-i...) in which the company has been taking personal computing lately.
- gte910h 16y ago
  Well I'm guessing Apple has been making said senior people very rich with the last 5-10 year stock growth, so they probably have some cognitive dissonance stopping them from speaking out there.

by bonaldi 16y ago

tumult 16y ago

Eucalyptus does not look particularly great to me. Is it using a custom algorithm?

bonaldi 16y ago
It is, yes, even down to adding typographer's quotes where the original lacks them (another iBooks oversight). It's not as good at H&J as you would be doing it by hand, but I've yet to see a river anything like those that snake through iBooks pages.
Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
According to the About text Eucalyptus relies on a customized version of libhyphenate, plus a number of other open components (including LinuxLibertine as the display typeface). I love the look of Eucalyptus and haven't seen any other reader that comes close (particularly at the iPhone/iPod screen size and resolution, and ESPECIALLY given that as far as I can tell they use the .txt versions of the Gutenberg files). It's not that they've sacrificed the right goats to the gods of text presentation magic, it's just that they actually give a damn what the output looks like.

CamperBob 16y ago

I'm surprised that Apple of all companies don't have people that really care about these details on the team That's an extremely applicable point in many respects. I'm surprised that Apple of all companies don't have people -- senior ones at that -- that are on the verge of open revolt over the direction (http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/06/eff-nothing-new-about-iphones-closed-platform http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/06/eff-nothing-new-about-i...) in which the company has been taking personal computing lately.

gte910h 16y ago
Well I'm guessing Apple has been making said senior people very rich with the last 5-10 year stock growth, so they probably have some cognitive dissonance stopping them from speaking out there.