Bug 447789

Summary:	FictionBook fb2: bad paragraph formatting
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	soshial <soshial>
Component:	fictionbook backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	aacid, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	21.12.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	correct example of a real book correct example of a real book shoudl show epigraph, text should be justified

Description soshial 2022-01-01 17:39:22 UTC

SUMMARY
1. The text alignment is to the left.

EXPECTED RESULT:
1. The text should have justified alignment (see examples).

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 soshial 2022-01-01 17:42:50 UTC

Created attachment 145016 [details]
correct example of a real book

Comment 2 soshial 2022-01-01 17:43:03 UTC

Created attachment 145017 [details]
correct example of a real book

Comment 3 soshial 2022-01-01 17:47:12 UTC

Created attachment 145018 [details]
shoudl show epigraph, text should be justified

Comment 4 Albert Astals Cid 2022-01-03 22:48:38 UTC

Can you link to the fictionbook spec where it says that text should have justified alignment by default?

Comment 5 Albert Astals Cid 2022-01-04 17:39:14 UTC

Do not change the assignee.

Comment 6 soshial 2022-01-09 07:08:22 UTC

Well, the core idea of the fb2 format is to never decide for the user, which text formatting or styling should be used. fb2 purpose is only to structurize data semantically (closest analogy is bare HTML with no styles).
The task of formatting and styling (CSS in this analogy) customization is shifted to the reader software. User is supposed to set up these styles to their liking once and for all. Also, different countries might have different styling traditions and user is supposed to be able to change that easily. The reading software keeps and applies the same settings for every book.

Summing up, I don't think I can provide any formatting/styling specification for the format, that was designed to avoid specificating styles.

In my opinion, our main task here is to make user experience as close to a real reading book as possible. Otherwise, user would open a fiction book in our reader for the first time, see an "bad" unwonted formatting and close Okular at once. We don't want that.

Just open several fiction book and look at the text. All of them would have justified text. Epigraphs would be mostly italic and aligned to the right. We should just copy that and maybe some day we support customizing these preferences in Settings -> Configure backends...