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Old 07-19-2010, 09:38 AM   #85
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Originally Posted by AlexBell View Post
Sorry, Jon, I don't agree. One of the books I've prepared, War is a Racket by Smedley D. Butler has chapters each starting on a new page, but is all one HTML file. Granted, it's quite a small book, but it has chapters and is all one file.

I must admit that I'm not sure what you mean by mobile ADE; is this a version for cell phones or something similar? I have no idea how War is a Racket would show on a cell phone or similar device.

Regards, Alex
If the book is small enough, then sure, it can be left in one flow with style tags to break the pages.

Mobile ADE is where you have the flows broken up into a size of no more then 300K uncompressed. (I hope I have it correct with 300K). But you cannot have a normal novel length book as one XML file and use tags to start a chapter on a different screen. That is why it's a good idea to split a book into a separate XML for each chapter. In most books, the chapter will not be too large. When you go to a new flow, you get that starting on a new screen page.

If you do not work within the mobile ADE spec, you will find on some readers that the book won't work. But if you keep to mobile ADE, the book will work on all readers using ADE.
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