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Originally Posted by VydorScope
Just make sure you run your result through the epub validator
http://validator.idpf.org/
and make sure you have no warnings or errors when done.
Also, I am pretty sure using <i> </i> is not valid in EPUB, that you need to us CSS for that. |
<i></i> is valid, as is <b></b>, in
EPUB 2 at least. There is an ongoing argument that people should prefer to use <em></em> (emphasis) rather than italics, and <strong></strong> rather than bold, but either should be acceptable to epub compliant software.
And it had better be. Sigil uses it, and I've seen Smashwords/Calibre generate this element, and it even (redundantly as far as I know) assigns a CSS style as well - eg: <i class="calibre2">some text</i> where the calibre2 style says the text should be italic. (Note that I am NOT holding this up as a good example, just an example of what has - in the past at least - come out of the meatgrinder.)
Elements that are not valid are things like <center></center>. Restrictions that have software like Sigil implement as : <p style="text-align: center;">Some text.</p> (I image Scrivener probably generates something similar if you explicitly centre any paragraphs, but have not checked.) Which just goes to show you that without style-aware editors your epubs may still not end up being as neat and tidy as intended by the standard.