hi,
I know there was a thread before asking how to do tabs for ePubs, but the answers seemed not quite satisfying to me, since I always try to avoid markup, that is not semantically correct.
I am asking this question because I currently work on an ePub which has a list with a negative indent. That means, there are 1-2 words that need to stand out introducing the text following (hope this is understandable). So the following text in the paragraph needs to be lined up without having varying spaces in the first line. I can better illustrate this with a screenshot:
So is there a better way to have the text lined up as you'd normally do with tabs than by creating a table?
InDesign uses in their ePub-export a the little character code for tabs "& #9;" (without the space in between), but this doesn't seem to work, at least in my browser (safari), and I don't know how to set up a space width for that. Another way would be the <pre> tag, but this is only acceptable for writing code since it uses fixed-lenght fonts.
On my recherche I also stumbled upon a something called the <tab>-tag, but my only source for that is this link:
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/tabs.html which I think may be a little outdated and I don't know if this was ever supported in HTML let alone reading devices.
I'd love to see a better way to handle fixed spacings in CSS/HTML, that is both easy to implement in ePub workflows and also semantically happy. But I kind of gave up hope that there is a perfect solution… maybe you guys have any idea?
