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Old 08-04-2010, 12:48 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by jswinden View Post
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.
TeX was not designed to be a reflowable format, but that would be a trivial obstacle to overcome with a little programming. Press the zoom button and even choose your zoom percent if you want, the TeX engine can regenerate the document on the fly and even store it in a subfolder for easy access later. Voila.

The only reason the publishing industry doesn't use TeX is because it is a markup language, not a WYSIWYG environment like Quark or InDesign. TeX can do anything those other platforms can do, it's just that Quark and InDesign are easier to understand on the screen. But it would be essentially perfect for a e-format.
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