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Originally Posted by Alfy
Very interesting article indeed!!!
Some publishers used to take pride in the way they would typeset a particular volume. I still have books, paperbacks, where the last page is dedicated to telling you which fonts have been used and with what philosophy. It does seem editors don't give a damn anymore. The main problem with the Adobe Digital Editions offerings when displayed on my reader is not due to Adobe, but to publishers who will not go the length to provide the proper formats. I understand it would entail an additional cost, but I'm still dismayed.
So yes, you are right, reflowable format is, alas, the way to go. Alas, because although it means we will be able to read our books with little trouble, it also mean they will never look as good as they used to. I, for one, will endeavor to find my books in .rtf format, so I can "home cook" them myself. But then I'm on holidays, and I might not always have the time to spend 2 hours on a book just get it to look the way a book should.
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I agree with you but we just need to push a little. All is not lost with reflowable formats. A computer can be taught to create a good looking page with kerning and reasonable looking breaks on lines and smart hyphenation and all the write stuff to rival a hand built page. Epub is only a database format. It has only rudimentary knowledge of the sort of thing you talk about but a reader could be designed to make such a presentation.
Dale