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Originally Posted by DaleDe
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
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Very true, the reader's software could be developed to produce better docs. But you would still need a lot of input at the publishing end. Otherwise, all books would look the same but every set does not fit every book (of course, you could have options in the reader to get the setting to vary, but again, do you really want the users to make these choices?).
Don't get me wrong, my eReader is my best friend! I'm just a bit disheartened that with the eInk, technology has really moved forward, but publishers seem extremely slow to embrace it. Oh well, I guess that'll be a discussion for another thread...