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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
Let's say that I seriously doubt that a lot of people know what a "standard epub" is.
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You are right, this is a matter for specialists. But common sense is enough to understand what "correctly rendered document" means. I'm not a professor of surgery, but I know the difference between "feeling good" and "being sick".
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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
And, additionally, I can imagine my reader friends' face if I ask them if they have been aware of the lack of a monospaced font. The first question will be: what is that?
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You are right. Your friends don't read computer books.Well, ask them "What is an
epub-reader?". They will give you an acceptable answer. Then ask them "And what is the minimum that should be expected from an epub-reader?" Each of them will answer you with a round of words that, with good approximation, means "reproduce a standard epub in a standard way".
Computer books are books with full cultural and scientific dignity. You would not accept that your computer books were printed on waste paper just because they are fewer in number than fiction books. Indeed, you (and your friends) certainly expect that the major typographic complexities of your technical books are correctly returned by more accurate technical details. And if someone told you that this is a singular and elitist claim you would feel teased.
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Similarly, it is not acceptable to be told that this is the "normal" way to reproduce a book. This result is far below the acceptable minimum (and your friends would agree with me).