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> I've recently experimented a bit with making epubs by hand (bash+perl) and they tend to break readers more often than not. Me too, and I wish SVG support was
by m-p-3 7y ago
> I've recently experimented a bit with making epubs by hand (bash+perl) and they tend to break readers more often than not.
Me too, and I wish SVG support was better on most eReader (not a good experience so far), and that there was official support for MathML or something equivalent. It hurts to see so many books using raster pictures to display a formula or a diagram, when it would look crisper and flow better if it was vector-based.
- Finnucane 7y agoI'm in academic book publishing, and our books have a lot of charts and diagrams that are challenging to display on certain readers that have poor SVG support. Also, tables can easily be larger than the readers can comfortably handle, and certain readers (yeah, looking at you, Kindle) suck at it. You'd think there would not be such a great difficulty in this, since epubs are constructed out of the same basic tech stack as web pages. I think the fundamental problem is that Amazon, Apple, etc., don't have much incentive to support texts beyond the most commercial genres.