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Old 07-07-2009, 06:37 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by frabjous View Post
I just saw the program for the TeX User Group (TUG) conference this year:

http://tug.org/tug2009/program.html

Two talks struck my eye:

Ross Moore: "Towards tagged PDF"
Kaveh Bazargan: "TeX as an ebook reader"

The first suggests that they're working to make it so that pdfLaTeX handles inserting tags, for properly reflow-able, cut-and-paste-able PDF output from TeX source.

The second suggests that packages, or perhaps even new output profiles, are being worked on for .tex source to create ebooks... (A TeX>ePub profile even?) ... although it's hard to tell from the title.
This indeed would be marvellous
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Either would be a huge step forward, but makes me wonder if in fact, PDF does still have a place as an ebook format for the future.
But as long as ePub has no footnote support (footnotes that pop up at the bottom of a reflowable page, that is), and there is no standardized way to reference page numbers, PDF will surely stay around.
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