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Re: Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS

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Post by mattcurtis »

st3fan wrote: post #31

I really don't like how this app uses its own typography for the UI. Including wobbling bouncy menus. It just doesn't do it for me. I prefer consistency with other apps that I use.

Hi st3fan,

Sorry to hear that. What consistencies are you referring to?

Re: Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS

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Post by eps »

mattcurtis wrote: post #23
eps wrote: post #22

Matt, a bug report - http://imgur.com/QMDeGvr Note where the charge indicator is at.

Yikes. Is that an iPad Pro? If you could share more details that would be great. There's also the issue tracker you may be interested in: https://github.com/hyphen-reader/hyphen/issues

iPad mini, iOS 8.3

Re: Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS

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Post by lobster_johnson »

mattcurtis wrote: post #25
sirn wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There seems to be Hyphenation support but not on by default. (I downloaded and tried.)

There is absolutely hyphenation support - you can toggle it on or off in settings, but it is off by default.

It's odd that your first and most prominent screenshot has such bad typography:

  regulation       the       circulation.
Bad typography is my main quibble with the Kindle app. It's been awful for years.

Have you looked into a better flow algorithm, such as the Knuth/Plass [1] algorithm from TeX?

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.4380111102/ab...

Re: Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS

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Post by mattcurtis »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #35
mattcurtis wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is absolutely hyphenation support - you can toggle it on or off in settings, but it is off by default.

It's odd that your first and most prominent screenshot has such bad typography: regulation the circulation. Bad typography is my main quibble with the Kindle app. It's been awful for years. Have you looked into a better flow algorithm, such as the Knuth/Plass [1] algorithm from TeX? [1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.4380111102/ab...

That screenshot has justified text, you can use left, right, and center alignments as well.

Re: Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS

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Post by mattcurtis »

walterbell wrote: post #36

How does this compare to Marvin, which was a decent successor to Stanza?

I think Marvin is great. However, imo, Hyphen differs quite a bit, and offers a more - deeper customization options, Goodreads integration, ADE pages, metadata lookup, emphasis on speed and ease, and so on.

Take the free version for a spin and let me know what you think.

Re: Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS

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Post by lobster_johnson »

mattcurtis wrote: post #37
lobster_johnson wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's odd that your first and most prominent screenshot has such bad typography: regulation the circulation. Bad typography is my main quibble with the Kindle app. It's been awful for years. Have you looked into a better flow algorithm, such as the Knuth/Plass [1] algorithm from TeX? [1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.4380111102/ab...

That screenshot has justified text, you can use left, right, and center alignments as well.

That's not really a solution. That will create an awkwardly ragged right margin. Justified text is more readable and makes text look less messy.

Re: Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS

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Post by mattcurtis »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #39
mattcurtis wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That screenshot has justified text, you can use left, right, and center alignments as well.

That's not really a solution. That will create an awkwardly ragged right margin. Justified text is more readable and makes text look less messy.

I like the Knuth/Plass technique as well, it creates much more uniform and visually appeasing line margins. The reason something like it would be so difficult to implement is that it requires heavy geometric processing every time the content reflows, which would impact Hyphen's performance a lot. Another issue I see is that it would pollute an ePub's DOM more than I'd care for.
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