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Originally Posted by reso
Edit. Also, I see that cerement has replied, and does indeed seem to know a fair bit about tex and latex ...
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Don't give me more credit than I deserve
Even my previous posts did nothing more than to muddy the waters ...
What I
should have said in the first place:
Currently, no eInk based reader has provided a viewer that uses the TeX rendering engine. The closest available is FBReader (under OpenInkpot) that has implemented the hyphenation algorithm and dictionaries, but not the spacing or math aspects of TeX -- so you still get the white rivers running through text and having to convert formulas to images to be able to view them.
As far as the Sony PRS-700, if you have a chance, try to do a side-by-side comparison with the Sony PRS-505. The 700 added a touchscreen and side-lighting and there's been complaints that screen visibility suffers because of it. Out of the current crop of eInk readers, the Sonys handle PDFs the best and, as you mentioned, getting PDF output from TeX is trivial to say the least. At this stage in the game, the next step up from the eInk readers is pretty much limited to netbooks and tablet PCs ...