Thread: PDF is not an eBook format
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Old 08-27-2009, 09:41 PM   #228
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
No need to use TeX for input. What is needed is for the layout engines for the ebooks readers to be improved to do proper paragraph and page level optimisations, including justification, hyphenation and widow/orphan control.
That's the whole point to TeX. There's no need for mobile reader manufacturers to have to develop their own layout engine that in the end does nothing more (and probably does a great deal less) than TeX. That's kind of like reinventing the wheel. No wait, it is EXACTLY like reinventing the wheel. The layout engines that are currently used in any mobile reader you can find are like chipping flint arrowheads in the stone age compared to what a TeX implementation could do. They've got a LONG way to go to produce an engine that delivers pleasing layout.
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