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

2012-03-07 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
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

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), > wh

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

2012-03-07 Thread Nicola
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

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 \setuppapersize[A4][A4]

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, width=160mm

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 o

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 fo

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, fo

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. 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

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

2012-03-06 Thread Philipp A.
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. ___

[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, bottomspace=20mm,bottom=0mm