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And, personally, an eBook reading software/format whose primary (and perhaps sole realistic) aim is to support the English/Western world in the foreseeable future is... well, of absolutely no interest/worth/value to me... or to the majority of humanity (most of whom today are not eBook reading device customers, but if their needs are rendered basically impossible to meet with the established industry standards, they almost certainly never will be).
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If different languages have such radically different typographical needs, I don't see that there would need to be, or even should be, a single standard for books published in all languages. If car manufacturers can make a separate version for each country, and in the US, sometimes different ones for different states, then surely, reader device manufacturers can put different firmwares/renderers, etc., in devices sold in different markets. (And I'd hope they offer ways to customize one's own firmware if a multilingual reader needed more than one renderer, even if it were impossible to use all.) I also would hope that the standard could be flexible enough to incorporate things that should be handled in different ways. Pie in the sky, perhaps.
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Also, right, TeX would need new conventions... let me ask again, is anyone actually working on this?
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There was a research talk about TeX as a eBook reader at the TUG conference this past summer, so apparently, yes. I don't have any first hand knowledge of their work, though.