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Originally Posted by Caleb666
What worries me the most about the ePub/Mobi formats that is that their horrible support for math/formulas. Technical books are being relased with math or formulas saved as an image, which scales rather poorly. And real MathML support seems like a far reality.
Unlike PDF, I've also noticed some books including images (for example, maps, or graphs) which are very small, and don't scale that well. That's a ruined book!
ePub/Mobi is only good for non-technical stuff like novels. Anything that has illustrations or formulas should be in PDF. My fear is that publishers jumping on the ebook bandwagon will release their ebooks only in epub/mobi formats which is going to suck badly.
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Reminds me of my days as a technical editor in the early 1960s (before everything went digital). All our stuff was machine set with a monotype machine, but equations had to be hand set in the centuries-old technique. The printers had only one compositor skilled in hand setting equations. Every year when he went on holiday we would get back galley proofs with a real dog's breakfast of symbols that made no sense. Computer setting has obliterated all that.