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Originally Posted by eschwartz
In EPUB, you are allowed to choose whether to do so or not. It's more flexible, and therefore it's also harder to do correctly.
This allows the legions of complete fools who publish books, to shoot themselves in the foot.
But it isn't particularly complex...
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I'm not sure where the OP who mentioned this--Solitaire1, I think--got the idea that this is complex to do? Ah, the indentation and no space between thing, right? @Solitaire: nothing really "complex" about it; the thing is, the original MOBI format (aka PDB), had a default of first-line indent, no space between. Changing THAT to either no indent, or space between, or both, actually, back then, took some doing. Now, it's simple. Same in ePUB--not the defaults, but how to set that up? Easy-peasy.
Why most of us loathe ePUB3 is because it's all Apple, all the time. All the focus was on multimedia (which nobody else is really doing), instead of fixing the glitches in ePUB, and ironing out any flaws. Plus, from my perspective, they ruined a perfectly good NCX, and went backwards into what is effectively a toc.html, but that's just opinion.
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The main problem with EPUB3, according to those who have a problem with it (that includes me), is that it makes things more complex, changes around a few things, and essentially gives you nothing in return except the ability to put video and audio inside the book.
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Yup. What he said.^^^^
Hitch