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Originally Posted by Jellby
It rather means "someone has some ideas", more than "they're working" 
I'm not sure, however, which PDF readers (if any) properly us tagged PDFs. |
Adobe Reader, which is of course the most common, does (at least with accessibility plugins, depending on version). And more importantly for my purposes, the PDF reader on the Sony's, right?
Some tidbits here:
http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/...il/007638.html
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I'd say (and what Abecedary says seems to confirm it) that it's almost the opposite. It's not using TeX to create ebooks, but to display them, which would involve some kind of ebook->TeX conversion, even if it's hidden. One of first (and easier, I think) things ebook readers need is to improve the paragraph breaking algorithm, and using TeX's for that is an obvious way.
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Yeah, I misread that, but Abecedary's posting of the abstract cleared it up. In a way it's an intriguing idea, though it would mean overriding the source's page size and margin settings, etc. Also, I think it would probably have to be a fairly minimal TeX system unless the memory and processing powers of the readers were beefed up a lot. A full texlive, with support for tikz/pgf images or pstricks or you name it, seems unlikely.
Yeah, I know these are early results, and it'll be awhile before we see anything, but I'm just glad people are working on it.