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Originally Posted by pdurrant
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.
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I'd prefer that an ereader /dosn't/ do that. It's expensive on the battery life. No, what I'd prefer is that the software on my PC looks at the screen size and each font size, produces the appropriate set of page markup and copys it to the ereader aloneside the book.
And like PDF, TeX is designed to produce pages which look good on a single size of page. It's popular in exactly the same fields where PDF is popular - academic and technical publications. It is not a deacent way of handling situations like...oh...ereaders where reflow is used.