Thread: Glo opinions about the glow
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Old 01-15-2013, 10:37 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by sysKin View Post
Was that the book with various <font> tags? Because if yes, it *was* kobo splitting words wrong.
As much as html doesn't specify how to split words, <font> is an inline html element and inline html elements are never a valid base on which to split. It *is* valid to have a portion of a word written in different font (imagine an emphasised letter) and boundaries of such font change are not sensible places for a newline.

In other words, while that book was silly, it was not invalid [...]
With massive, massive caveats - I can't read Dutch at all and the book looks fine to me on my Glo, and the OP never responded to my question to tell me exactly where they were having the problem they were having - and I'm not remotely an epub guru - what I've read says that the <font> tag doesn't exist in the epub/XHTML 1.1 standard. The epub book certainly didn't validate in Sigil. I'm quite happy to be wrong on any of this, which is why I suggested that he take his problem to the EPUB forum here for more informed help.
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