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petrucci · 07-20-2011, 09:13 AM

I am in the process of creating my first e-book. I was shocked to find that behind the curtain of many e-book formats there is nothing more than html. I personally feel that html is a very poor choice. It does not give the typesetter enough control of the placement of type on the page. Symbols are also difficult to use. To obtain the result I desire I will end up creating the book from jpeg images.

The sad thing is that the problem of digital typesetting was all but solved more than thirty years ago by Donald Knuth with his TeX language. I doubt there is a version of TeX for an e-reader, but I thought I would ask.

07-20-2011, 09:13 AM	#1
petrucci Groupie Posts: 198 Karma: 1647827 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	the need for a new e-book format I am in the process of creating my first e-book. I was shocked to find that behind the curtain of many e-book formats there is nothing more than html. I personally feel that html is a very poor choice. It does not give the typesetter enough control of the placement of type on the page. Symbols are also difficult to use. To obtain the result I desire I will end up creating the book from jpeg images. The sad thing is that the problem of digital typesetting was all but solved more than thirty years ago by Donald Knuth with his TeX language. I doubt there is a version of TeX for an e-reader, but I thought I would ask.