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Originally Posted by Lexicon
I think anybody who spends time formatting ebooks should take a serious look at the Daisy DTBook XML element set (which is actually included as part of the epub spec).
It allows semantic markup (ie. you use tags like <author> and <epigraph> rather than presentation tags like <center> and <font>) and inclusion in epub means that hardware readers should support the format natively in the near future.
Perhaps best of all; documents that you spend time marking up in DTBook should be accessible to those with vision problems - via text-to-speech and braille converters.
CSS (and possibly XLST) used in combination with a DTBook document should allow a visual presentation almost as good as using HTML/CSS, but with the advantages of greater accessiblility and semantic clarity.
Also it appears to be a fairly small element set, so it doesn't have the steep learning curve associated with TEI. Marking up something with a simple structure like a novel should be very easy. |
Yeah I need to take a closer look at DTBook too. I know that they divide books in parts/chapters/sections like we do on
Feedbooks.
I don't really like though the fact that you have to explicitly tell the level of depth.
Should be very easy to make Feedbooks fully DTBook compliant, I'll work on this next month I guess.
I've been studying other standards too, for example I'd like to use
hReview on Feedbooks.