Hi Jim, I think I will start with your remark on PDFs. PDFs is very able to display the document on small displays. Whether is is eligible is a different matter. It is not the fault of PDF. It will be eligible if you have enough resolution and the display is not too small. But, the reading experience is unsatisfactory. Ever had a thumb book! Nice little buggers. Yet, you would not reformat a paper back to a thumb book! Not matter what format you use you will run into this problem of scale. As a matter of fact in both directions. EPUB is suppose to scale and produce similar results on all devices that conform to the "Standard". The reality is far away in this matter because the "Standard" is far to vague (or loose). Sure you can tweak to look "perfect" take that to another device or smaller/larger one and garbage. You can design it to look DECENT on several devices. But, that "HTML" does not look good in mobi. Even kindlegen creates two version because the devices are "incompatible" I do not see anything stopping TEI, RST or HTML for going from OCR to book. I do see that EPUB will not do! regards Keith. Am 06.02.2012 um 06:02 schrieb Jim Adcock:
Keith>You actually, can blame this either on TEI or EPUB, but on the tools or how you used them. I can not say which!
Not sure what you are saying. I think you are saying that TEI *could* be used to generate attractive output on small devices, but that isn't being done anywhere today that anyone can show me.
Most EPUB I see *does* generate attractive formatted display. Granted some EPUB comes from paper houses which "don't get" EPUB and their stuff can be pretty ugly because a small electronic device *is not* a sheet of paper and paper design rules don't necessarily translate directly to electronics (part of the reason PDF really doesn't work on small devices -- small devices are not made of paper.)
A proposed "master" format should be able to successfully demonstrate the entire food chain, from raw OCR to rendered text on an end customers' tablet such that they say "Now *this* is a book!"