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Originally Posted by cmdahler
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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I have no idea what TeX is. (Something in my brain says it's a Unix thing?)
Is it something I could easily format my own ebooks for? Part of why I use PDFs is that I'm very comfortable formatting Word docs for conversion to PDF; I don't have any HTML-editing software that's nearly as easy to work with, so I don't format for ePub & mobi. (Or, possibly, I just haven't been trained on the software I have.)
Do Word docs convert fluently to TeX docs, if the interpreting device has the right software?