Quote:
Originally Posted by Turtle91
I just learned that chapter/scene breaks are supposed to be done using an <hr/> [...]
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hitch
My question is, if you can use pictures of an asterism, for crying out loud, (example 2) why not the real thing, or a fleuron? How is an image of asterisks somehow friendlier, accessibility-wise, than a fleuron or 3 asterisks themselves?
|
Agreed. Still hold same views we held back in 2019,
"Why is it so hard to preserve blank lines?".
The <hr/> as scenebreak seems a little odd in ebooks.
For web, maybe, since you can more reliably use more complex CSS3 to substitute/override the look.
But in ebooks? Just KISS. Simple asterisks, simple fleuron.
For EPUB3 Fiction specifically, I wonder if you could also just split each scene into individual <section>s as an alternative... (and leave the simple asterisks/image in there, of course!
)
Side Note on <hr>: Usually when I scratch my head on some stuff, I head over to HTML5Doctor and see what they say:
"The small & hr elements":
Quote:
|
[...] I learned <hr> actually means end of one section, start of another, which is the same semantically as </section><section>. Because elements like <section> already indicate this intrinsically, <hr> is more for thematic breaks, such as separating different topics within a section of prose, or between scenes in a novel. However you can use it anywhere you can use a <p>.
|
Hmmmm... definitely would require more thought + reading into the details/reasoning...