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Old 11-22-2015, 10:42 AM   #47
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Originally Posted by Sarmat89 View Post
...and HTML forces us to use it for everything that requires italics: not only emphasis, but book titles, characters thoughts, and everything else which would require specific markup tags in a sane book format.
HTML mixes up logical and physical layout when creating the simplest fiction elements: letters, titlepages, poems—they have to be imitated by CSS styles.
Also EPUB cannot handle metadata: there is no support for genres, series, translations, artists...
I'm afraid I have to disagree: that's what CSS is all about. Style names define semantics; style definitions define appearance.

I'd suggest starting a thread in the ePub forum if you'd like to pursue this interesting topic of conversation; it's not really appropriate for this thread.
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