Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 21:57:59 -0700
From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>,
	Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>,
	PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Documentation epub format
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On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 03:42:33AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 05/01/2013 11:36 PM, Gavin Flower wrote:
> >On 02/05/13 15:23, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >>On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 18:27 +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> >>>I must admit that there is a bit of a disappointement as far as the
> >>>user experience is concerned: the generated file is barely usable on
> >>>an iPad2 with the default iBooks reader, which was clearly not
> >>>designed for handling a "4592" pages book (from its point of view).
> >>Well, clearly there are mainstream books that have 1000 pages, so it
> >>ought to be designed for that.  It's not clear to me then why it
> >>necessarily must fail at 4000 pages.  I think you might want to run some
> >>experiments to see what the reader can handle before we start doing
> >>anything.
> >>
> >>
> >There might be something silly in some eReaders, like reserving 12
> >bits for page numbers internally - as 'no one will ever want a
> >book with more than 4095 pages!'?
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> My ancient Sony PRS-505 e-reader has the epub paginated at 5200
> pages, and it seems to work just fine, if a bit slowly.
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> It's possibly worth noting that the epub is about 1.5 times the size
> of that for War and Peace.

At least ours doesn't start out like this:

    Eh bien, mon prince. G=C3=AAnes et Lueques ne sont plus que des
    apanages, des =D0=BF=D0=BE=D0=BC=D0=B5=D1=81=D1=82=D1=8C=D1=8F, de la f=
amille Buonaparte. Non, je vous
    pr=C3=A9viens que si vous ne me dites pas que nous avons la guerre, si
    vous vous permettez encore de pallier toutes les infamies, toutes
    les atrocit=C3=A9s de cet Antichrist (ma parole, j=E2=80=99y crois) =E2=
=80=94 je ne
    vous connais plus, vous n=E2=80=99=C3=AAtes plus mon ami, vous n=E2=80=
=99=C3=AAtes plus =D0=BC=D0=BE=D0=B9
    =D0=B2=D0=B5=D1=80=D0=BD=D1=8B=D0=B9 =D1=80=D0=B0=D0=B1, comme vous dit=
es. =D0=9D=D1=83, =D0=B7=D0=B4=D1=80=D0=B0=D0=B2=D1=81=D1=82=D0=B2=D1=83=D0=
=B9=D1=82=D0=B5, =D0=B7=D0=B4=D1=80=D0=B0=D0=B2=D1=81=D1=82=D0=B2=D1=83=D0=
=B9=D1=82=D0=B5.
    Je vois que je vous fais peur, =D1=81=D0=B0=D0=B4=D0=B8=D1=82=D0=B5=D1=
=81=D1=8C =D0=B8 =D1=80=D0=B0=D1=81=D1=81=D0=BA=D0=B0=D0=B7=D1=8B=D0=B2=D0=
=B0=D0=B9=D1=82=D0=B5.

Cheers,
David.
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