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Originally Posted by Paolo Carnovalin
The best readability of the book is achieved in 'vertical scrolling' mode. But I ask you: is it a common feature for all ereaders to be able to set reading in vertical scrolling mode?
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No. The main reading method of ebooks is "pagination", similar to a physical book.
It is not like a website, where you have infinite scrolling down.
Like Turtle/Quoth have said,
some ebook readers have an
option to enable "vertical scrolling", but that's in the extreme minority.
(And all physical readers—like Kindles, Kobos, etc.—do not have vertical scroll.)
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Originally Posted by Paolo Carnovalin
I am creating an ebook (reflowable epub3) that contains many tables of different sizes.
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Can you give examples of the tables?
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Originally Posted by Turtle91
There have been a couple discussions here about tables and proper best-practice formatting (Tex will pop in here in a little bit with the links  ). |
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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Generally speaking, 2 - 3 columns max is acceptable for text that really needs to be in a table; [...]
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Yes, that's about right.
Remember, in ebooks, people can read with HUGE FONTS and on very tiny screens (cellphones).
So, what can fit on a huge 7"x10" page in a physical book, cannot physically be squished down into a cellphone-sized screen.
You'd then have to reformat or Transpose/Verticalize your information, like the example I gave in 2021:
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Transposing/Verticalization, where you flip the X- + Y-axis, can also be used. For example:
6x3
Code:
Name Color Cool? Number Tabs # Teas
Tex Red Very 1 15 30
Turtle Gray Meh 2 99 5
3x6
Code:
Name Tex Turtle
Color Red Gray
Cool? Very Meh
Number 1 2
Tabs 15 99
# Teas 30 5
You may want to do this in your ebooks if you get to ~4-5+ columns, depending on the data.
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Originally Posted by Turtle91
try and display the text in an alternate (reflowable friendly) format if possible.
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Yes. In some cases, you may have to split your big tables/data into pieces.
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Originally Posted by Turtle91
If the table must be larger than that, then it's better to embed an image of the table.
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I strongly recommend against images-of-tables. It's a mess. See the previous discussion in those links above for more detailed information.
Try to HTML-ize your tables as much as possible.
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Originally Posted by Turtle91
BEWARE: Audio listeners will lose the information presented if you do this.
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Yes. Text-to-Speech is very important, so try your best to do your HTML tables as good as possible.
