
27 Feb
2011
27 Feb
'11
11:25 p.m.
The marketplace disagrees. If commercial companies can make it work, why can't DP?
From what I've seen purchasing commercial e-books, the commercial companies are not doing much better [any better] on these issues than PG/DP. Many "commercial" formatters have a weaker grasp on the issues that the PG/DP volunteers, and coming from a paper background, and using paper-oriented development tools, come to the table with their own sets of prejudices and misunderstandings of the issues. What is particularly sad is to see commercial firms spend great time, money and effort to "make it look just like the paper edition" -- with the resulting predictably catastrophic results.