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Old 11-05-2013, 07:25 AM   #9
AlPe
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
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
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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we bookmakers would ALL love to not have to do, as you know all too well.
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 .
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