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Originally Posted by maximus83
First of all, there's a distinction between what you use as your authoring format, and what you use as your publishing format. You could conceivably author in any schema you want, including TEI, but still publish in an output format such as HTML, PDF, or EPUB.
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I actually did this many years ago for one of my PGDP books. I even wrote a transform that output wrapped and aligned 80 column text, to meet the PG requirements. Unfortunately at the time I don't think PG accepted the original TEI as a format, so all that got uploaded were the derived formats.
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In fact, we author technical source content in markdown, and then transform and publish to the web as HTML5.
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I was thinking about this last night, and got to the same point, that if you are marking up display rather than semantics, then something simple like markdown is really all you need, at least for standard text.
If I could have all my ebooks in markdown, and have readers read that, it would be greatly preferable to the current situation, where I never know how any given book will render until I actually transfer it to the reader.