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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
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?
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I don't think you really understand what TeX is or how it works. You seem to think it's something vastly different from ePub. It's just a text markup language with a VERY good engine for rendering the typesetting. It is
exactly the same thing as ePub, except ePub uses HTML for its markup language and uses a HTML-renderer to layout its typesetting. It just doesn't do that job nearly as well as TeX.