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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
1) Multi-col: The whole point of multicolumn layouts is that humans find it hard to read long lines. With a reflowable format you dont have long lines in the first place.
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That's not the only reason Kovid. There are aesthetic ones as well.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
2) Floating sidebars:
Again the whole point of floating sidebars is to use the wide margin spaces available in fixed size layouts for large pages. There's no real functional difference between a floating sidebar and a centered block one. You're just used to seeing floating sidebars so you think asides must always be in the form of floating sidebars. Except perhaps that block ones interrupt reading flow a bit.
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I've bolded the relevant bit.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
3) Code listings
You can put your code listing into a whitespace: pre element in which case it wont wrap and will look just as good as a PDF on small screen (better since you will be able to change the font size).
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Yes, in that case it will flow of the edge of the screen. That's far, far worse.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Hmm not good coming from the author of a program to edit a reflowable format.
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I've saved this one for last... gotta love politics.
Comments like these are
precisely the reason why I went with RST + Sphinx in the first place and not just straight LaTeX. Sphinx offered the possibility of having a nice PDF along with a nice epub. It failed in that, at least for me.
You remind me of the PDF zealots. You know, the people who say that epub is useless and that everything should be typeset by hand and provided as PDF? You're just doing the reverse.
As it often in life turns out, reality is somewhere between the two extremes. And I'm glad you pointed out that I develop an epub editor. I also typeset about a hundred epub books a year and
maybe three PDF ones.
But you're right, people now probably have good reasons to feel concerned about my "loyalties".
