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Originally Posted by dynamike
If that EPUB Proust title is not formatted to your liking, then the source of that evil is the party who did the format with whatever tools they were using. It seems that EPUB is toolwise still in its infancy. But what I like about it is that you can work with a bare minimum of tools (text editor and compression software) to create a document. No specialized tools or libraries are required, although I am sure they will appear in a short while to make content creation an conversion more accessible than it is today.
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No, in this case, the problem is different: in their best practice guide, Adobe decided to use a certain set of rules that are not in the ePub specs. They only allow XML flows that are <= 300k. The problem with Proust is that there's no chapters, no page breaks etc... Because of this, you basically have 2 choices:
- adding page breaks that are not in the book to create multiple XML flows
- keeping the original formatting
I decided for the moment to keep the original formatting. What would be necessary in this case, is not an editor to FIX the formatting or different tools, you would have to MODIFY the text.
I wrote a blog post about this by the way, and I consider that it's currently the worse problem with the mobile edition of DE:
http://blog.feedbooks.com/?p=74
Don, the Sony Reader link is for the PDF version on Feedbooks. I still use PDF files myself on the PRS-505: I like hyphenation, using a different font than the embedded one and I don't need to change the size on the device itself once I've found the right size.