Re: [NTG-context] Style file for iPad?

2012-03-07 Thread Nicola
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

Re: [NTG-context] Style file for iPad?

2012-03-07 Thread William Adams
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

[NTG-context] Style file for iPad?

2012-03-06 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
If this has been asked before, my apologies. Is there a style file for formatting PDFs from ConTeXt for reading on an iPad? So far I've just used \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout[backspace=20mm, width=160mm, topspace=20mm, top=0mm, header=0mm, footer=10mm,

Re: [NTG-context] Style file for iPad?

2012-03-06 Thread Philipp A.
2012/3/6 Alasdair McAndrew amc...@gmail.com Is there a style file for formatting PDFs from ConTeXt for reading on an iPad? make an ebook instead. PDF files aren’t for screen reading, but for printing. semantic markup like it is used in ebook formats is much better suited for screens of all

Re: [NTG-context] Style file for iPad?

2012-03-06 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Yes, but what ebook formats handle mathematics and diagrams? -A. On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Philipp A. flying-sh...@web.de wrote: 2012/3/6 Alasdair McAndrew amc...@gmail.com Is there a style file for formatting PDFs from ConTeXt for reading on an iPad? make an ebook instead. PDF

Re: [NTG-context] Style file for iPad?

2012-03-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6-3-2012 12:03, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: If this has been asked before, my apologies. Is there a style file for formatting PDFs from ConTeXt for reading on an iPad? So far I've just used \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout[backspace=20mm, width=160mm, topspace=20mm, top=0mm, header=0mm,

Re: [NTG-context] Style file for iPad?

2012-03-06 Thread Khaled Hosny
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

Re: [NTG-context] Style file for iPad?

2012-03-06 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: If this has been asked before, my apologies. Is there a style file for formatting PDFs from ConTeXt for reading on an iPad? I use the following style for an ebook reader: https://gist.github.com/1886670 I set the paper size to the physical size

Re: [NTG-context] Style file for iPad?

2012-03-06 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012, Hans Hagen wrote: On 6-3-2012 12:03, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: If this has been asked before, my apologies. Is there a style file for formatting PDFs from ConTeXt for reading on an iPad? So far I've just used \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout[backspace=20mm,

Re: [NTG-context] Style file for iPad?

2012-03-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6-3-2012 14:48, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 6 Mar 2012, Hans Hagen wrote: On 6-3-2012 12:03, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: If this has been asked before, my apologies. Is there a style file for formatting PDFs from ConTeXt for reading on an iPad? So far I've just used