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Originally Posted by cmdahler
Footnotes aren't really workable in any of the current e-formatting standards. These are usually formatted as endnotes with a link in the text to go back and forth. It's a little cumbersome, but not too bad.
The truly sad thing about typography in e-formatting is that the creators of the various standards went more with either hypertext markup or a similar design, basically a web engine. Ridiculous and woefully inadequate for generating a seriously professional look to the text. The sad thing is they could have used TeX as a markup language and had something right out of the box that generated truly professional looking print on the screen.
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Is TeX reflowable? If not then it would not be suitable. From what I've read TeX is rarely used for anything other than mathematics books. If the technical book industry snubs it, I can see why the non-technical book industry would too. There is a huge amount of support for HTML and XML, so it makes more sense to go with those standards rather than forcing designers to learn another convoluted system.