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Originally Posted by ahi
Have you generated multiple PDFs from a single LaTeX source document before?
The accuracy of your statement wholly depends on how low one's expectations are of the output.
- Ahi
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Well, actually yes I have, and I'm not sure what you're getting at.
To be clear, I'm not suggesting that to support textbooks, we should be replacing ePub with Latex.
What I
am saying is that (1) ePub is inadequate for textbooks because it does not support vector graphics, which are needed for graphs, mathematics and diagrams in general, and that (2) Latex shows that it's possible to create a reflowable markup language that supports vector-based content.
So we can complain all we like, but PDF is currently the only document format that's suitable for textbooks, and the fact that PDF is inherently a poor format for eReaders is holding things back. This needs to be solved.