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Why is the only documentation in epub format?

It's not only in ePub.

The canonical source for the documentation is in doc/book, with HTML formatted copies in doc/html and a Markdown copy as doc/RETRO-Book.md. The glossary of words is also included separately as a text file under the doc directory.

The current ePub isn't put together right, so it just has headings for the pages and no actual content. You can find the docs in the archive as Markdown files.

I'll investigate this and get a bug fix release out ASAP.

I've identified the issue. A correctly built copy of the ePub is at https://forthworks.com/retro/r/RETRO12-2021.1.epub (replacing the broken one) and I've now issued a 2021.2 release to fix the issue that caused this.

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