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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
A journal article in a journal may follow a different citation style than republishing it as a chapter in a book.
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If you're doing scientific articles in epub, all respect to you, but that's a pretty esoteric market.
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Doubt they have a clue. But you, as the ebook creator, should be the knowledgable one.
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I meant, they have never discussed repurposing the text (except from print to ebook, or for webpages, which is trivial) or converting to audio automatically -- for audiobooks, they use a human reader, which is by far the best result.
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
They probably won't know one thing about <blockquote>, <h1>, <table> + <thead>, alt tags, or EPUB3 footnote markup either... but you'd want to mark all this stuff to the best of your ability (and teach them about it) to help future readers/conversions/tools.  |
They just care what it looks like. And I have never, in 30 years, had an author who was able to use Word styles usefully. Trying to educate them about XML is just unthinkable.
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If you mark the: - Headings
- using <h1>-><h6>, NOT <p class="heading">.
- Paragraphs
- using <p>, NOT <div class="p">.
- Italics
- using <i> or <em>, NOT <span class="italics">.
- Tables
- using <table>, NOT <img>.
then you'll be most of the way there.  |
Yes, of course.
I learnt HTML back in the 90s, did it for years before I learned any CSS, so I use all those as appropriate. And I much prefer e.g. just <h2> for chapter heads than a p or div class; not least because it more or less works with no CSS and lets me generate a TOC in Sigil.