Thread: PDF is not an eBook format
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Old 08-28-2009, 04:38 PM   #253
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Originally Posted by frabjous View Post
That would be the advantage of selling the .tex source and having the reader process it; Of course, the DRM issue still stands, and the very idea of a DRMed .tex document makes my skin crawl... but still...
A .tex source file can no more generate a typographically optimal document for an arbitrary size than an HTML file can (orphans, widows, words needing hyphenation will crop up at different places for different size screens... issues that are not machine-solvable). Admittedly a .tex source file would still produce better quality output than any ePub, LRF, LIT, Mobi, or any other reflow format ever known to man... so perhaps that would be a tolerable compromise between the "masses" demanding kindergarten-formatting and those who demand nothing less than what paper books can and usually do deliver.

This is a very dead horse though, friend... and I suspect an evil or possibly cursed one.

If you are in the habit of making your own eBooks via LaTeX/XeTeX, do drop me a private message.

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