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Originally Posted by murraypaul
a) Silly things like having to split the files up into chunks to support obsolete readers, which make it utter unsuitable for an editing format.
b) More fundamentally, it is still based on a markup designed for display, not for content. Something like TEI, actually designed for the markup of electronic texts, would be technically far superior. That way a user could decide once how they wanted quotes, poetry, and so on to be displayed, create one stylesheet and have it apply to all texts, because the texts would be marked up for content. A blockquote would say it is a blockquote, rather than being tagged for central display with added margins. As it is nothing is consistent from one ebook to another, because all that matters is the display, not the markup itself.
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a. It's not that difficult to edit an ePub with many chapters/sections/etc. I do it and it's quite easy.
b. Every hear of CSS? You define your blockquote in the CSS and then it's done. Also, not always should things look the same. It depends on how it's wanted to look. Do you see pBooks all looking the same? They don't. eBooks don't have to always look the same.