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Surely the majority of the typesetting would be done by the e-reader software itself, anyway. Hyphenation, justification, and spacing can be handled almost enti
by capnrefsmmat 15y ago
Surely the majority of the typesetting would be done by the e-reader software itself, anyway. Hyphenation, justification, and spacing can be handled almost entirely in software, except perhaps hints for strange words or difficult situations. LaTeX can certainly handle it without help, at least.
- 8ig8 15y agoI agree, but in this post, the author says: > With a little effort, the makers of The Publisher’s digital incarnation could have one-upped the printed book by positioning these photographs to accompany relevant bits of Brinkley’s text, illustrating, e.g., a description of Henry Luce’s childhood with a photo of Luce as a toddler. I don't know anything about typesetting, but this specific example seems difficult to automate with software. A human would need to decide where best to place these photos. Again, a guess, but it seems that this book started life in a pre-electronic book production process. To get it right would require more manual effort for the e-book. Just like websites are evolving to be adaptive/responsive, I think book production will follow. We're just not there yet. Websites are still being launched today that are close to impossible to read on a mobile phone.
- wtallis 15y agoIn LaTeX, switching between putting all the figures on their own page or putting them inline takes the equivalent of an #ifdef. It's really easy, and doesn't require any special knowledge of typesetting. Remember, TeX started out with the goal of being able to automate the typesetting of a very large, very complicated multi-volume book (The Art of Computer Programming). Novels are almost too easy, and adding a few pictures to a biography is mostly trivial.