On Dec 3, 2009, at 8:22 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
Not really.
My apologies, lost the thread of the discussion. I agree w/ this.
With mkiv you can typeset xml files as pdf,
so you can also (using modes) convert it to xhtml (we have lua now).
Writing a css is not a problem, and you can also manage fonts --
after all
you know them because you need for pdf . Other infos are trivial.
Following this route you can also make an (x)html for a WOFF enable
browser
like firefox 2.6 beta -- it's almost the same of epub, after all
Cfr
people.mozilla.com/~jkew/woff/woff-spec-latest.html
Of course none can say that epub is like pdf from a typographical
point of view
but for low energy devices can be better epub than pdf.
I'll grant that .epub can be more flexible and more appropriate, but
one has to keep in mind that one is giving up quite a bit of
typographical quality, and that one is at the mercy of the h&j of the
viewing program and I've yet to see one which puts more than a
minimal / brain-dead / greedy --- set as much as will fit on the
current line and then break to the next algorithm in.
William
--
William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
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