mleku on Nostr: yeah, that is really important i think, especially the thing of getting it to produce ...
yeah, that is really important i think, especially the thing of getting it to produce a reasonable pdf proof at the end...
i bought a copy of Plato's Timeaus and Critias a while back from amazon and the typography on it was so bad i felt totally ripped off, like someone just printed a dumb pdf with OCR errors onto cheap glue bound book and done, though it was pretty cheap, just awful tho
i don't see any reason why an adequate version can't be encoded in epub format, all the ebook readers i've used with epub3s generate pages that would be adequate on hard copy at their size (small on my phone) and probably wouldn't look bad on a bigger format like an e paper reader
mostly it's just having decent conventions about section markers and for example starting chapters/sections always on an even page and so on, and automatically generated annotations and end-of-chapter, or end-of-book bibliography (this would be better than bottom of page IMO) and i'm pretty sure there is schemes for generating indexes out of a compiled text, and having all their page numbers correctly noted with the annotations in the bibliography
and other things too, like side-by-side translations where you have odd page is one language even is another, or odd is the text, and even is the annotations, and they stay side by side correctly
of course, watch out for that dirty feature creep but i think those few considerations would make it very possible to pop out beautiful hard copy editions from a complete compiled chapter set of a book... i don't think it's traditionalism or any kind of impractical to insist on having adequate hard copies also... IMO, digital copies suffer from a similar problem as word of mouth recitations, they can be lost forever, but parchments can survive thousands of years
i bought a copy of Plato's Timeaus and Critias a while back from amazon and the typography on it was so bad i felt totally ripped off, like someone just printed a dumb pdf with OCR errors onto cheap glue bound book and done, though it was pretty cheap, just awful tho
i don't see any reason why an adequate version can't be encoded in epub format, all the ebook readers i've used with epub3s generate pages that would be adequate on hard copy at their size (small on my phone) and probably wouldn't look bad on a bigger format like an e paper reader
mostly it's just having decent conventions about section markers and for example starting chapters/sections always on an even page and so on, and automatically generated annotations and end-of-chapter, or end-of-book bibliography (this would be better than bottom of page IMO) and i'm pretty sure there is schemes for generating indexes out of a compiled text, and having all their page numbers correctly noted with the annotations in the bibliography
and other things too, like side-by-side translations where you have odd page is one language even is another, or odd is the text, and even is the annotations, and they stay side by side correctly
of course, watch out for that dirty feature creep but i think those few considerations would make it very possible to pop out beautiful hard copy editions from a complete compiled chapter set of a book... i don't think it's traditionalism or any kind of impractical to insist on having adequate hard copies also... IMO, digital copies suffer from a similar problem as word of mouth recitations, they can be lost forever, but parchments can survive thousands of years