In article <20120306134022.GB29209@khaled-laptop>, Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 10:40:20PM +1100, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: > > Yes, but what ebook formats handle mathematics and diagrams? > > Plus the poor layout support in almost all ebook readers (brain dead > paragraph builder, no hyphenation, no OpenType support etc. etc. they > are usually pieces of junk for any remotely complex text layout job). It's worse than pre-TeX printed books. Which makes me wonder: is anyone in the world addressing this? Are there people in the TeX community involved in the standardization processes (say, Epub3, but also the various W3C specifications), who could push forward ideas from TeX, like minimum requirements for the algorithms that rendering engines should use? These questions (together with sighs) arise every time I see a web page especially with mathematical notation… Nicola ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
