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I just saw that you have created ... SIX different documents for different devices!!!
Exactly my point!
And why six documents and not ten? Or 20?
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Those were just wrappers that called the core document. Did you look at their size? It would be more like creating six different CSS files. Every single word of the actual book is in the file imp-core.tex and nowhere else. (So much for the impossibility of separating form and content!)
If I had wanted to use one document, it would have been trivial to do it with the ifthen package instead. I was new at LaTeX when I did that, so I did it a different way.
is an ePub many documents and not one because if I unzip it, there will be a lot of different files in there? Counting files is not what's important. I only edited the book once. That's what's important. Creating those wrapper files could even be automated with a GUI giving the reader a choice of fonts and font sizes and page sizes and header/footer styles, etc. That's pretty much all they contain.
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Latex and pdf were created for printed paper, not for screens. Sure, there are people who learned to use these formats and they don't want to learn anything else. This does not change the fact that those are printed paper formats. Tex and Latex are around for 30 years and they are marginal formats at best.
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The entire scientific world disagrees with you.
And LaTeX is less than 20 years old. In fact, it's no older than HTML is. TeX is older, but that should be encouraging, since it shows that the core typesetting algorithms (which are the important thing here, not the markup differences) are not so resource intensive that portable devices can't handle them... after all if computers from the early 80s could...
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They are not going to get more popular in the future, they will slowly disappear.
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The popularity of LaTeX has skyrocketed in the past couple years. It's very noticeable in my discipline. No one had heard of it five years ago. Now, lots of people are using it.
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(The topic is: which format will win?)
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Ugh. I have already predicted that XHTML/CSS will win the ebook war. Read my posts! My point was about hoping that we get as good a quality of a renderer for it as we have for LaTeX, and that, until such a time, there is reason to prefer PDF.