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Old 04-26-2012, 09:05 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by teh603 View Post
You know modern HTML, but not everyone does. My HTML predates CSS and I'm told most of the old tags like <BR> (which was always easier to use than <P> and </P> ) are deprecated. And then you have people who've never used HTML at all.

The main thing is, the meatgrinder produces consistent results. If you were to start accepting hand-coded epubs, you have no idea what you could end up with. Heaven forbid someone finds a way to embed a virus into one.
You start accepting hand-coded ePub and you could end up with some rather nicely formatted eBooks instead of meatground eBooks.

Bulleted/numbered lists would work for one.
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