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by AdmiralAsshat 2596 days ago
Outside of dedicated enthusiasts, I don't think the average reader wants to take the time to "compile" their book.

Most commercial services these days (if my HumbleBundle books from O'Reily are any indication) simply provide pre-compiled editions in EPUB/MOBI/PDF format, as this seems to cover 95% of use cases.

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I did it once. Set the page size to match my kindle and recompiled.

It turns out there's a fair amount of tuning to make math expressions not run off the edge of the page.