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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
The question that remains unanswered is how are you going to do an e-version of say a math book or anything where the 2 dimensional structure of the book is important.
There are even fiction books consisting essentially of text for which the 2 dimensional structure is quite important. Did you see House of Leaves by M . Danielewski with its inverted pages, column writing, empty or partially filled pages, various fonts?
Or more recently Debatable Spaces by P. Palmer - Orbit actually did a marvelous job of recreating the 2 dimensional structure in its e-extract, but I think it would take a lot of work to do it for the whole novel and there are pages where I doubt reflowability will work.
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But, isn't that true of every eBook format on the planet? These kinds of things are tough even for paper books. Typically empty pages are pretty easy as are partially filled pages and various fonts. Some of the others are tougher but sometimes a graphic can be substituted when necessary to maintain a picture of what the page is to look like. This is actually a pretty good way, in an electronic document to represent something that is beyond normal formatting.
A few formats simply won't do all the things you can do on paper can will certainly not reflow it. Some eBook formats don't even support graphics but they still seem to be useful for some purposes.
Dale