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Originally Posted by theducks
Why are there so many Linux versions?
Same reason... 'My way is better'.... Even if it is (way) less flexible  .
My way would have all those user settings be the differences fromthe publisher settings. Not either Or as the ones I have used. Enlarge or shrink. Not absolutes. |
One thing I think would improve ebooks is to have one mastering format that is used to format the actual ebook. It would be extremely verbose, leaving absolutely no guesswork when it comes to ebook formatting, and would be a free and open standard. As mentioned above, some things could be based on relative formatting, such as the size of the main text, with smaller/larger adjustments within the text. This would have the advantage that the actual ebook would only have to be formatted once.
Then, each ebook publisher creates a distillation program that takes that verbose ebook file, parses it, and generates an ebook customized for their specific devices. Each distillation program removes code that the publisher decides is not needed, or modifies it based on what they've decided when it comes to formatting. However, they don't have to format ebooks from scratch.
It is possible that I could be wrong or too idealistic. But I think this would eliminate some of the issues with ebook formatting.