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Old 09-02-2010, 06:21 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by PhishStyx View Post
After I downloaded Sigil because I was interested in producing game e-books, I noticed that there is very little table support and when I asked about tables, I was told quite specifically (in the Sigil forum here) that ePub tables do NOT reflow well. So I abandoned the idea and have continued with PDF's.
Tables do not reflow. If you think about it a little, that is natural. A table is not a semantic structure, its is basicallya set of instructions saying put this object here, this object to its right and this object below it. That kind of instructionset is hard to reflow.

If you are interested in reflowable design, you should look for CSS based replacements for tables. There are plenty of articles/blog posts about it. Most of them are focussed on web design, but the techniques apply equally well to ePUB.
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