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bobcdy · 08-13-2011, 12:45 AM

Jelby,
I appreciate your very well explained significance of the CSS tags - I've developed enough skill based on work on epubs pretty well (I hope) from working with html3 (and earlier versions), from study using Sigil and ADE of many examples given on the web including those of many MR epubs, and much trial and error experimentation, but I really don't understand much about the fundamental bases for css/xhtml or many details necessary for more complex css work.

Again, though, I'd like to mention that starting with an ocr scan of a very complex Old English book with thousands of italic-normal transitions of various types, trying to assign css tags in the proper way to describe each of the many different uses of italics would be extraordinarily complicated and difficult, and the result would be a multiplicity of tags to reflect Latin and French text, English poems, Latin poems, book titles, names of countries and towns, authors, etc. etc., and of course each tag would need to be pretty lengthy. Also each tag designating the use of italic text would probably be different if another epub creator was working with the same text. Why not then just use <i> as a style designation because the only other almost as simple tag <em> would give a false impression of representing emphasized text?

Bob

08-13-2011, 12:45 AM	#8
bobcdy Fanatic Posts: 527 Karma: 1048576 Join Date: May 2009 Device: bebook; prs-950; nook simple touch; HTC Jetstream tablet	Jelby, I appreciate your very well explained significance of the CSS tags - I've developed enough skill based on work on epubs pretty well (I hope) from working with html3 (and earlier versions), from study using Sigil and ADE of many examples given on the web including those of many MR epubs, and much trial and error experimentation, but I really don't understand much about the fundamental bases for css/xhtml or many details necessary for more complex css work. Again, though, I'd like to mention that starting with an ocr scan of a very complex Old English book with thousands of italic-normal transitions of various types, trying to assign css tags in the proper way to describe each of the many different uses of italics would be extraordinarily complicated and difficult, and the result would be a multiplicity of tags to reflect Latin and French text, English poems, Latin poems, book titles, names of countries and towns, authors, etc. etc., and of course each tag would need to be pretty lengthy. Also each tag designating the use of italic text would probably be different if another epub creator was working with the same text. Why not then just use <i> as a style designation because the only other almost as simple tag <em> would give a false impression of representing emphasized text? Bob Last edited by bobcdy; 08-13-2011 at 01:13 AM.