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::applause:: Quite agree Xenophon.
I will note that LaTeX needs quite a bit of work w/ most documents to get a perfectly formatted documents --- intractable things include:
- stacks (instances of the same word beginning or ending adjacent lines)
- orphans and widows --- arguably one can just let the ebook page fall short and force a requirement of at least 2 lines to begin or end a paragraph
- float placement (figures, tables &c.) --- I've had exactly one chapter in well over a decade of doing books / journals come out perfectly as regards float placement and orphans / widows --- every other one has required quite a bit of wrestling w/.
That said, I could see a LaTeX macro package w/ a matching reader where certain macros would only be invoked at certain page sizes so that one could paginate the document by hand, inserting formatting commands which would only be invoked at need at the appropriate size, while sizes which hadn't had hand-tweaking would just have to make do w/ the defaults.
That said, there have been a number of papers published recently on using units larger than a page to calculate optimal breaks, so the R&D is in the works.
William
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