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Originally Posted by frabjous
I don't sure about the ambiguity in the TeX license,
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Yea, well, you're not a major book publisher or hardware device maker with millions to lose if you're wrong. I know it's been veto'd from a tool it would of been useful in at least one place I've worked over the liscence issue.
You can make assumptions about what's needed, but you've just made a dangerous assumption there - that books should be allowed to embed code. Can't you see the potential for security problems there? You have to start making huge assumptions about which parts to leave out, and you're going to force people to use specalists to get their book laid out in TeX, it's effectively asking them to code rather than script, as WISYWIG editors provide.
And... I don't want the "quality" of TeX. It's aimed at the print book market, and has very little relevance to what I want in an ebook. The goals of rendering an ebook are very different. How does TeX markup reflow?
Sonist - Large screens defeat the whole reason a lot of people want ebooks in the first place, because they're portable. They're not all going to be large, unless you come up with a foldable screen, and even there there are major useability issues. And a 2-hour battery life tablet is going to do away with the PRS's and Kindle's?