Writing a book in LaTeX in 2023: Difference between revisions
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* I haven't yet been able to get the [https://ctan.org/pkg/pdfx?lang=en pdfx] package working in LuaTeX | * I haven't yet been able to get the [https://ctan.org/pkg/pdfx?lang=en pdfx] package working in LuaTeX | ||
** Not a huge deal, as it turns out, due to PDFs being essentially unmarketable, see below | ** Not a huge deal, as it turns out, due to PDFs being essentially unmarketable, see below | ||
* [https://ctan.org/pkg/ | * [https://ctan.org/pkg/footmisc footmisc] is ok, but what i really want is [https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/233269/paragraph-short-footnotes-following-multiline-footnotes-prevent-footnotes-being?rq=1 what this guy describes], which does not seem to be possible. | ||
there's one fundamental and much more serious problem, though: | there's one fundamental and much more serious problem, though: | ||
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so if you want to sell an ebook, you're going to need to accept that the user can effectively destroy your layout in terms of image placement etc. | so if you want to sell an ebook, you're going to need to accept that the user can effectively destroy your layout in terms of image placement etc. | ||
this also means side-by-side dual language editions are more or less impossible, as are annotated editions defined on a page-by-page basis. you pretty much need to use endnotes rather than footnotes (though navigating to and from endnotes is admittedly a much better experience on a device than in a printed book). | |||
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