> If it's going to be rendered to a screen and printed, better start looking for a job, because that project is going down in flames.
What makes you say that? I'm just finished up my first published book. The entire thing is in LaTex, which is extremely powerful. With conditionals and macros etc. etc.
So I make a print-ready pdf and I'm good to go.
I run the whole thing through pandoc and it spits me out an ePub that's good to go for the eBook version.
Works a treat. I do battle LaTeX some days, but the results are gorgeous.
It's mostly a joke. I've worked on a few things that "needed" to be PDFs with links inside them, because the clients couldn't decide whether they wanted a print version or a digital version, and went with "both". I won't write off the idea that it can be done usefully, I've just never seen it result in anything but a bad user experience for both use cases.
What makes you say that? I'm just finished up my first published book. The entire thing is in LaTex, which is extremely powerful. With conditionals and macros etc. etc. So I make a print-ready pdf and I'm good to go.
I run the whole thing through pandoc and it spits me out an ePub that's good to go for the eBook version.
Works a treat. I do battle LaTeX some days, but the results are gorgeous.