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Originally Posted by ProDigit
So, What does epub offer that LRF does not have?
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As zelda_pinwheel said, the main super-big-untrumpable thing is being an open standard.
As far as formatting features go, it has a fair number of quirks. The biggest limitation is that it's fundamentally pixel-oriented -- almost every measure in the book is expressed in terms of screen-pixels, which makes real reflowability to arbitrarily sized screens a lie. This also means nothing can be scaled with font-size, including images. The BBeB block model is much simpler than CSS's, which means no generic floating blocks for text-wrapping around anything other than images, no inline blocks, and reduced support for arranging sequences of blocks (useful for poetry). The way vertical block margins are used is less-than-desirable, duplicating the entire margin of a block which crosses multiple pages on each page. Left and right horizontal margins may not be specified separately, but only as a single "side margin." BBeB completely lacks any support for vector graphics, which EPUB has via SVG.
I'm sure there's more, but I haven't looked at BBeB for a while.