From: William Adams <will.adams@frycomm.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: TeX as an eBook engine?
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:10:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <931F0902-AE4B-408F-AB1C-A3AC8B9901F2@frycomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe8d59da0912030112q760b939fj4012de4c388d3369@mail.gmail.com>
On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:12 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
> Maybe epub as backend is a more interesting idea:
> given (some kind of gentle ) tex file one can produce an epub file
> as result.
You're putting the cart before the horse.
Sadly, epub is rather lacking in markup capabilities.
Instead, one should use a full-fledged markup scheme such as TEI, then
one can convert that using an XSLT and add a nicely designed CSS to
create a .epub which will be as good as it gets, but unfortunately,
won't be as nice to read as a nicely formatted .pdf due to limitations
of the H&J capabilities of .epub viewing programs.
An excellent example of the limitations of the .epub format in
comparison to .pdf is _Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy_:
http://people.umass.edu/klement/russell-imp.html
William
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[not found] <60DB6B0E-C759-43E0-A13F-54AB7D0D5560@wideopenwest.com>
2009-12-02 17:03 ` Otared Kavian
2009-12-02 18:19 ` Hans Hagen
2009-12-03 8:17 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2009-12-03 8:58 ` Hans Hagen
2009-12-03 9:12 ` luigi scarso
2009-12-03 13:10 ` William Adams [this message]
2009-12-03 13:22 ` luigi scarso
2009-12-03 13:52 ` William Adams
2009-12-03 14:48 ` luigi scarso
2009-12-05 14:58 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-12-06 20:30 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
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