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Originally Posted by Hitch
Thanks for confirming what I already thought was right; we've made lots'a synchronized iBooks files, using SMIL's, and I was pondering what mysteries of ePUB3 had occurred (of which I was unaware) that somehow made synchronous highlighting possible sans the SMIL
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Technically, you can do sync highlighting withouth SMIL via JS (e.g., see my JS library to add SMIL support into iBooks for reflowable EPUB3 files:
https://github.com/pettarin/rb_smil_emulator ). However, you still need a sync map {xhtml_element_id, t_begin, t_end}.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
we bookmakers would ALL love to not have to do, as you know all too well.
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Well, we create reflowable EPUB3 with Media Overlays, using a tool I developed which creates the SMIL files automatically, given the text and the audio. We have already processed several hundred thousands SMIL fragments, see
http://www.daisy.org/techwatch-2013-08b#a4 .