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Originally Posted by pstjmack
My personal axe to grind is poetry. Some displays just fine in some ebook readers. Other examples don't. Sometimes the same book will look just fine in, for instance, the EPUB reader add-on for Firefox, while losing its verse breaks and turning into single blocks of text in FBReader.
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IMHO, it's next to impossible to create an epub that will display the same on all devices and apps, unless you keep the formatting very simple.
A low-tech solution would be to focus on getting your epub to display correctly in
ADE. You cold then mention in the preface of your book that the epub was optimized for viewing with ADE and that you strongly recommend using ADE as the viewing app. (In spit of its
many bugs, ADE/RMSDK is pretty much the de-facto epub 2 reference implementation, because most ebook reader manufacturers have licensed it for DRM purposes. Adobe also offers free Windows and Mac ADE apps.)
You could also use
Jellby's XPGT trick to create ADE-only styles and alternative styles for all other readers.
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Originally Posted by pstjmack
Maybe this is an issue in the software's implementation of the EPUB standard rather than the standard itself, but I certainly don't see much sign that it's been addressed by the EPUB community - unless EPUB3 is supposed to be the solution that fixes these issues.
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epub 3 was primarily designed for interactive ebooks with JavaScript code and audio/video files. I.e., even when it is eventually supported by the majority of ebook readers and apps, it most likely won't help you much with your poetry styles.