Re: ebook format

[Oliver Corff]

On 16/06/2021 08:56, Dave Kemper wrote:

> On 6/10/21, Deri <deri@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> > Just out of interest, why do you dismiss pdf format for reading on the kindle? 
> > I find you have
> > greater control over the way you want it to look using groff and pdf.
> As a creator, that may have some appeal.  But most readers won't be
> happy with this, because it means they can no longer resize the type
> and have the page adjust appropriately.  (They could if the device
> understood raw groff, but I'd be surprised if that were an option on
> any commercial tablet.)

Actually, a surprising number of ebook readers runs on some kind of
linux, so running groff should be possible.

> As an alternative to disabling kerning, instructing groff to embed all
> the fonts in the PDF ("-e" option of gropdf, thus "-P -e" to groff)
> may help with this.  With this, the page should display identically
> across all viewers and devices.
Thank you for the suggestion, I'll try that.

Oliver.