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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
ahi -
I think multiple fixed layouts is the only way to go, but it seems so inelegant, doesn't it? In essence, publishers would be "typesetting" each ebook three or more times (small, medium, large). I cannot see them going that route. I think it is much more likely that quality typography will vanish, sacrificed to expediency.
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It seems inelegant, until LaTeX and/or PDF supports elegantly storing multiple layouts (without storing the content twice or more times over).
As for typesetting multiple times... it's not so time consuming as to be prohibitive. These admittedly less than pristine
versions (8 of them) were created with well less than a days work. 2-4 versions of an average length book shouldn't take longer than a day to do tolerably, or longer than a week to do
really well.
And, as stated before, I find nothing more incredulously unlikely than the suggestion that bookmaking will turn to crap because of eBooks. Hell, I do not even see any realistic prospect of wider eBook reading device adoption until the typography issue is fixed.
- Ahi