A while ago I grabbed some mathematics book samples for the Kindle. These
were books produced by well-known publishing companies, retailing for
considerable sums (even in the electronic versions), and in all of them the
mathematics typesetting was atrocious. I think that in most (all?) ebook
form
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),
> wh
In article <20120306134022.GB29209@khaled-laptop>,
Khaled Hosny 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 build
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
\setuppapersize[A4][A4]
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,
width=160mm
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 o
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 fo
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, fo
Yes, but what ebook formats handle mathematics and diagrams?
-A.
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Philipp A. wrote:
> 2012/3/6 Alasdair McAndrew
>
>> 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 rea
2012/3/6 Alasdair McAndrew
> 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 sizes.
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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,
bottomspace=20mm,bottom=0mm
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