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Originally Posted by aapezzuto
wow, battle of the footnotes....
footnotes and pagenation are questions of hardware/software implementation... The only real bearing I can see they would have on assessing a format is deciding if it is asking to much from the current technology. I dont like the idea of every reader/software starts storing its short cuts and work arounds in my files... let it create a parallel file that it can get rid of at its leisure... The last thing i need when cleaning up my computer is to have to open every book i own and sweep out the extra stuff from the junk drawer.
with foot notes the real end all question is... how picky are you about exactly how it looks... because if you want perfect control, you will need a human overseeing it... use pdf... if you don't care exactly how it works its a much easier task...
so at the heart of this, has the argument become .epub is a decent format... a little new to have good support, and it is/isn't reasonable for low power computing devices natively?
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I think that as far as the epub spec goes right now, it is an improvement over OEB. It is also good in the fact that several major players were behind its development (with some notable exceptions).
As far as rendering on small devices, I don't think that it will be any more difficult than current formats that are based on OEB. In fact, it may be easier, since the structure of XHTML 1.1 is more stringent and it has dropped several old HTML tags.
Since epub is designed to be reflowable, we don't need the restrictions of a fixed format like PDF. However, there does need to be some easy, standardized way to display footnotes and such. I think this is one area where the OPS spec needs improvement.