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DawnFalcon · 09-02-2009, 11:53 AM

Great, and I'm sure you understand print typography very well. But pretending that ebooks have identical requirements is to be willfully blind to the realities of why people purchase ebooks, and to obscure the potential of ebooks to do things which print books litterally cannot in terms of interactivity, etc.

"Good enough'' isn't, and only perfection should be striven for."

Ahh, the MIT Method. Well, Better Is Worse typically provides quicker soloutions which solve the practical problem they set out to solve without needing to be technically correct (Yes, this is an old, old argument).

And I'd point out something there - you can make small TeX installs, and you linked me to several. A small LaTeX install? Not practically (there are a bunch of large dependencies for any practical work). Most LaTeX installs are 750+ MB for a reason.

As to a stripped down TeX install for e-readers, is there anyone actually working on such, and are they willing to submit it as a standard?

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DawnFalcon Banned Posts: 2,094 Karma: 2682 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: N/A	Great, and I'm sure you understand print typography very well. But pretending that ebooks have identical requirements is to be willfully blind to the realities of why people purchase ebooks, and to obscure the potential of ebooks to do things which print books litterally cannot in terms of interactivity, etc. "Good enough'' isn't, and only perfection should be striven for." Ahh, the MIT Method. Well, Better Is Worse typically provides quicker soloutions which solve the practical problem they set out to solve without needing to be technically correct (Yes, this is an old, old argument). And I'd point out something there - you can make small TeX installs, and you linked me to several. A small LaTeX install? Not practically (there are a bunch of large dependencies for any practical work). Most LaTeX installs are 750+ MB for a reason. As to a stripped down TeX install for e-readers, is there anyone actually working on such, and are they willing to submit it as a standard? Last edited by DawnFalcon; 09-02-2009 at 11:59 AM.