Re: MkIV and DVI output

["Olivier Guéry" <nemolivier@gmail.com>]

>  > Do you plan some support for the ebooks formats (epub, mobipocket) ?
>
>  it depends, we have one here and it's slow and the screen is already
>  degrading (although the quality is not that bad); it's a matter of paper
>  sizes and margins, so that can already be done; hyperlinks are
>  suppoorted too, but normally very slow on such devices; one problem is
>  that they use part of the screen for buttons and such which kind of
>  conflicts with stand alone documents that have their own interface;

Thank's for your answers Hans and Taco.

I'm going to try to explain this in english… hum ;o)

I'm in contact with François Bon who launch 3 month ago this :
http://www.publie.net
It's a publisher of contemporary texts.
Since there's not a standard for numerical texts and lot of different
devices (a tabular [1]) you can download various formats on this site
:
— pdf (landscape style for computers) ;
— small pdf for ephone ;
— mobipocket prc [2] ;
— htm ;
— xml.

(I wich they use the epub openformat from idpf [3] too).

They use something like adobe indisgn for this (and maybe other things
for xml / html).
The result is not so good (lack of nbsp !)… it's a lot of work. They
do a lot « by hands ».

For my point of view ConTeXt (or an xml format ?) is the solution :
one low-level file and an automatisation process for all the other
files.

Except for some complex poetry, texts are « simple » (no columns, no
images…). On publie.net [4] you can read a few pages of all texts (pdf
using issuu [5]) and download the all texts in « public domain »
section [6], but only pdf and rtf formats.

What do you think ? Am I wrong ? Is the use of indisgn the right way ?

Best regards,
Olivier.

[1] http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobipocket
[3] http://www.idpf.org/
[4] http://www.publie.net
[5] http://www.issuu.com
[6] http://www.publie.net/tnc/spip.php?rubrique10

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