Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Can I just use the template (Sigil's defaults) and be okay? Thanks.
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The defaults are perfectly fine/adequate... but with the extra
lang +
xml:lang in the <html>, they're "more right".
Sigil's default:
Code:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
you just add the little:
Code:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">
and you're good to go.
Sigil's default code is saying: "This is HTML... but I don't know which language this is."
All lang + xml:lang are doing is saying: "This is HTML AND it's in US English".
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
instead of this:
Code:
<body lang="en-US" dir="ltr">
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you don't need
dir="ltr". That's already the defaults. The only time you would ever need to specify a
dir is when you're working in right-to-left languages (like Hebrew, Arabic, [...]).
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
I'm tired of having to tweak all this minutia, so when Turtle91 suggested an epub template, I was like, Yeah, I'm in.
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You already have the same EPUB template you used for years and years... we've just updated it with a few chunks of slightly better (and admittedly slightly more confusing) code.
But once you understand what each little piece is doing, it becomes easier to "read through the Matrix". Kind of like when you learned the basics of Regex!
And once we get this new lang stuff drilled into your head, all you have to do is just remember to copy/paste it into your future books.
