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Originally Posted by comet
Is is possible to do "more" using epub?
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Yes, simple as that. The Adobe ePub renderer in my PRS505 is several years old, but can still render in ways that the latest Kindle couldn't even dream of, and we're talking about
basic elements such as margin control. This is because Amazon has failed abysmally in their stewardship of the .mobi format - it's still basically the same thing you could get over a decade ago.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
there's no specification of "how to write a dictionary" in the ePub standard.
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I have to say that, being a fluent native speaker, I don't quite understand this obsession with ebooks and dictionaries. But I'll admit that it's the sort of thing to file under 'this might be a good thing'. There are a lot of things that need to be fixed before worrying about dictionaries though.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
The current ePub standard can't replace PDF or Topaz for complex layouts, but the new ePub 3 standard should be able to do so.
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ePub 3 is a
SCANDAL. They had a chance to address the current failings and point the way forward and they
failed completely. Where is the page model? Where is the specification for concurrent text flows? (Try typesetting
Embassytown in ePub - there's no option other than to rely on embedded jpegs.) Where is the specification for overlapping windows? You can't do something as
basic as vertically center text on a page in the current standard - guess what, you can't do it in ePub 3 either.
FAIL. ePub 3 fails to approach the rich standards of print layout in any shape or form.