On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:10 PM, William Adams
On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:12 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
Maybe epub as backend is a more interesting idea: given (some kind of gentle ) tex file one can produce an epub file as result.
You're putting the cart before the horse. Not really. With mkiv you can typeset xml files as pdf, so you can also (using modes) convert it to xhtml (we have lua now). Writing a css is not a problem, and you can also manage fonts -- after all you know them because you need for pdf . Other infos are trivial.
Following this route you can also make an (x)html for a WOFF enable browser like firefox 2.6 beta -- it's almost the same of epub, after all Cfr people.mozilla.com/~jkew/woff/woff-spec-latest.html Of course none can say that epub is like pdf from a typographical point of view but for low energy devices can be better epub than pdf. -- luigi