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Originally Posted by Jellby
Then Oyxgen is no good for validating ePub or CSS, because @page is part of the ePub spec, and the CSS 2.1 spec. |
I'll admit that the validation part is frustrating at times. The code I have for displaying the cover page works just fine everywhere, but does not validate in XHTML. I think I just need to add some tweaks; should ask in the Oxygen forums.
The reason I am using Oxygen, after trying out several other software programs, is that it gives me clean code (none of the junk that Sigil adds), it points out errors (with line numbers!), and it lets me work inside a zipped folder, without having to unzip the book to work on it and rezip it to look at the result. That saves untold time.
My current toolchain is Word or InDesign to HTML and NoteTabPro to clean up the HTML. I prepare an epub container in Oxygen, and then just cut and paste content from NoteTabPro to Oxygen. Goes from one large file to several files inside the zipped folder. The one large file is useful in applying global changes.