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Old 11-24-2015, 12:06 PM   #25
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Amen!

@Hitch: <i> and <b> work just fine. That they were ever deprecated seems insanity to me. I've had trouble with <u> and had to create a style for it. But I think that that was because the underlined words were also bolded, and Sigil at least doesn't like me to do that, but creates a style of its own on the fly.
Really? And which ePUBcheck was that, pray tell?

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I just ran my book-in-progress through epubcheck, and it passed just fine, with multiple <u>s and <i>s, though the underlines are done with a style, the last forced on me by Sigil. And most of my books (most of which contain <u> and <i>) are sold on the Apple store, which mandates epubcheckworthiness.

I've never been much of a follower of rules that don't make sense. Heck, I can't even remember whether <em> means bold or italics. Each is a form of EMphasis, and so is all caps.
Yes. Please note the part about "...the underlines are done with a style,..."

My last direct experience with this was quite simply that using direct styling in the form of "u" did not pass ePUBcheck; I vaguely recall a discussion in-house about the inconsistency with b and i and u; and I'm fairly certain that the latest ePUBcheck will puke on underlining styling that's done directly.

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