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Old 01-21-2012, 05:30 PM   #7
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If you mean that LaTeX cannot produce documents of different sizes, margins and fonts, then you are wrong... but I don't think you mean that. If you mean that document and font sizes are hard to change after production, then you are correct. LaTeX is originally not intended to produce reflowable documents.

However, seeing that quite a usable HTML-file is coming out of htlatex, I still think it should be possible; while LaTeX can take page widths and sizes into account, it obviously doesn't need to, as proven by the fact that the HTML-file above is quite resiable and reflowable.

In my honest opinion, eReaders do not need stuff such as headers and footers for novels. They just need these options, for me anyway:

- Cover, and Title Page
- A ToC
- Starting each part / chapter on a new screen
- Possibility to "pop up" a foot note by tapping/clicking it
- Possibility to find a word in the dictionary by tapping it

Everything apart from the cover, title page, and TOC should just be plain text, maybe bold or italic, but that's about it. Maybe I'm just quickly satisfied :P

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