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Originally Posted by frabjous
LaTeX of course is evolving, with LaTeX 3 under development... branches like XeLaTeX are probably already more suitable for ebook readers. Probably what we'd want is a suitably tweaked new branch.
...or, what's almost the same, a tweaked version of HTML or XHTML that has the same power, along with a rendering algorithm that properly obeys good rules of typography, but can adapt those rules somewhat to the preferences of the reader (font size, and so on).
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Um.. ePub is a tweaked version of HTML. Rendering engines for epub are improving.
The issue with rendering engines is that the processors on most ebooks are not that powerful in order to give good battery life. They work by waking up, doing the minimal amount of work and going back to sleep again. Doing a full layout of a book as it is opened would shorten battery life from weeks to hours.