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Originally Posted by Jellby
I have an oldish linux in this computer, and it's already a bit crammed. My last experiences with Wine here were rather disappointing (like all text disappearing, it was impossible what the menus and buttons were for), so I decided it was better to install it somewhere else.
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Ah, fair enough. If/when you have GNU/Linux running on a more newish computer, ADE under Wine 1.0.1 runs 100% perfectly, with no glitches whatsoever.
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Originally Posted by Jellby
Oh, my! I refuse to add that sort of markup to my books. It gets even more confusing if you have:
<p>—These em dashes are <em>like parentheses</em>!—</p>
Since <em> and <span> have to be properly nested, you'd have to close and reopen the <em>. |
Alas, yes :-/. You could use Word Joiner and programmatically transmute so-joined text into the admittedly unfortunate markup.
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Originally Posted by Jellby
EDIT: Another thing DE seems to do is ignore the "linear=no" spine property...
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To be fair though, the OPF spec does say that reader systems may ignore the distinction between primary (linear="yes") and auxiliary (linear="no") content.