On Mar 7, 2012, at 3:34 AM, Nicola wrote: > 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…
The problem is, since the rendering is based on HTML, people just grab a web browser framework and build on that to make an ebook viewer. Here's a post I wrote up once comparing a specific ePub display on a specific viewing program w/ a hand-tweaked Plain TeX version: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1371218&postcount=7 > those who're curious may find it educational to compare my .pdf w/ this ePub > version to see the sort of typographic infelicities which even in the best > ePub version can't be controlled for --- > - one word last lines > - # of lines on a page constantly changing to prevent widows / orphans > - overly loose line on the middle of pg. 20 > - 3 word stack on pg. 21 (meditation/Meditation) > - 2 word stack on pg. 32 (black) > - 2 word stack on pg. 37 (the) Twice! > - six word river on pg. 40 (the/their/the/the/its/we) > - 2 word stacks on pg. 40 (a & We) > - 3 word stack on pg. 46 (the/the/The) > - 2 word stack on pg. 47 (a) > - awkward break at the bottom of the first page of Chapter VII where the > poem is referred to, but appears on the following page > (when viewed in Sony's ebook viewing program)). In the .pdf I believe there > were only one or two places where I let two word stacks stand (because they > were intractable) --- will have to try again using xetex and margin > protrusion and character expansion (I'd used DEK's macro for hanging > punctuation from _The TeXbook_). William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
