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lumpynose · 05-18-2019, 03:11 PM

I'm teaching myself (or trying to) to format a public domain book in epub (original bare minimum formatted book from archive.org). I used the figure and figcaption tags on the images and then belatedly discovered that I need to use epub3 for that, so I used a converter for that.

I bring the book into calibre and convert it to azw3 prior to sending it to the kindle. Out of curiosity I looked at the azw3 file in calibre's editor and saw that the html is still using html5. The html tag at the top of a file is

Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

Whereas in the epub3 file it's

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:epub="http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops">

Question 1: Pardon me for not having memorized all of those &%#@! html headers and their versions but what version of whatever is calibre's output using?

Question 2: The figures are still using the figure and figcaption tags; will that work with the kindle?

05-18-2019, 03:11 PM	#1
lumpynose Wizard Posts: 1,086 Karma: 6719822 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Palm Pilot M105	epub3 to azw3 conversion I'm teaching myself (or trying to) to format a public domain book in epub (original bare minimum formatted book from archive.org). I used the figure and figcaption tags on the images and then belatedly discovered that I need to use epub3 for that, so I used a converter for that. I bring the book into calibre and convert it to azw3 prior to sending it to the kindle. Out of curiosity I looked at the azw3 file in calibre's editor and saw that the html is still using html5. The html tag at the top of a file is Code: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> Whereas in the epub3 file it's Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:epub="http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops"> Question 1: Pardon me for not having memorized all of those &%#@! html headers and their versions but what version of whatever is calibre's output using? Question 2: The figures are still using the figure and figcaption tags; will that work with the kindle?