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Originally Posted by Psymon
I can't thank you enough, Rubén, for your time and trouble in helping me -- or maybe I should say for your patience in putting up with me.  |
You have nothing to thank me.
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I'm a bit confused now, though. When this whole thread started, you said that you thought that using the background-image CSS method was better than the SVG method, but now I get the impression that perhaps it's actually SVG that you think would be better. Did I get confused about something along the way?
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Yes, I said that. And still I think is the better method but in this particular case,
when the background image has to occupy the full page; that forces me to use properties not well supported by ADE (because, I repeat, the background image must have a height=100%)
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That method you pointed to for centering text vertically on a page was rather interesting, too, actually -- although as you indicated, it won't work on all devices (i.e. not in ADE). I can see that the SVG method does have the advantage that one can get text to center on the page -- it comes out pretty much as though one had actually made a graphic of the text...
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Indeed.
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...in fact, except without the "overhead" of having tons of extra graphics in one's epub (which in my case would have been one each for the 20+ chapters in my book).
I have to wonder, though, if doing it that way (SVG) introduces some limatations?
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SVG is well supported by ADE, ereaders based on ADE, iPad and Kindle. As DaleDe said, is not supported by mobi but mobi is the old Kindle format; right now, Kindle 3 and newer models, use the .kf8 format and .kf8 supports plenty SVG. To me, mobi is a practically an obsolete format (sorry Hitch, I know you don't think so) and only used by the old Kindle models.
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As I mentioned before -- and which you resolved for me -- there's the fact that my chapter title texts don't get made into <h1> tags, but I also wondered about two other things: searching, and text-to-voice readers. I tried out a search on my ipad, and that seems to work okay, but I'm not sure how a text-to-voice reader would work, if it would pick up on those chapter titles and "read" them, too (not to mention read them as headings, not just simply "text").
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I don't know how it'll work with the TTS feature because my reader doesn't have that functionality. Maybe others members of this forum can answer you this question.
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I guess wondering about this accessibility issue might inadvertently introduce a problem that would cause my ebook to be rejected -- and I guess that's why I was wondering about the background-image/CSS method that you originally mentioned. Like I said, I tried to do it that way, but couldn't get it to work (using the larger background image that I loaded up in my previous reply.
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I don't think that your ebook will be rejected by using SVG
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In other words... I'm still a bit confused, and not sure which method would be the better way to go! Sorry... 
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If you want to use a background image with a height of 100% then use SVG that is supported by all major ereaders.