HTML formatting

[MarcusStringer]

Originally Posted by Elfwreck

What'll take over is whoever manages to make a markup-based format (which might be ePub) that displays with elaborate layout options if you've got the screen real estate, and simple linear layout if you don't.

Fair point...

This maybe be a viable way forward: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_oBp...layer_embedded

[gaphic2]

Indesign to Epub works. Be sure to look at http://www.adobe.com/products/creati..._software.html and http://www.adobe.com/devnet/digitalpublishing/. Yes, there are howto videos in the first link.

Do as much as you can from Indesign itself. Usually, if any, there's only minor tweaking left to do in the css style definitions and the epub metadata. Avoid editing the xhtml files manually. That way the epub won't cost more than the print version to typeset.

[Valloric]

Originally Posted by Elfwreck

What'll take over is whoever manages to make a markup-based format (which might be ePub) that displays with elaborate layout options if you've got the screen real estate, and simple linear layout if you don't.

And that is epub.

PrinceXML as an application shows what can be done when someone wants to make an (X)HTML renderer that actually doesn't suck when it comes to typography. Sure, it could be even better, but it already has a very nice line breaking algorithm.

The fact that no one has yet made a typographically pleasent epub Reading System doesn't mean it can't be done (and PrinceXML proves it could be).