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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
That kind of layout can be done with css and html. Not sure what's included in ePub3, but it might suppport this alredy.
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CSS does columns, where if you add content to one side of the page, it scrolls to the other? How does it know/decide where the "bottom" of the screen is? (Not that columns are optimum for ebook readers; I'm just not sure I've ever seen web pages that use columns--and it'd be a great way to keep all of an article on a single screen without scrolling.)
I know that CSS can do text-boxes and variable indentations for different blocks of text and images with text-wraparound, and potentially tables/charts, and those should be enough to deal with textbooks. Not, of course, that any company is spending substantial time making reflowable textbooks instead of "here's the PDF we sent to print; wrap some DRM around it and throw it in the portable device."