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Originally Posted by Hitch
Yes, but that doesn't mean that the bookmaker should not use em. That's an entirely different discussion altogether. We all know, all too well, that the varied abilities of different ebook readers is...enormous. You can use Marvin or Moonreader or a Kindle or a Kobo and on and on and on.
That doesn't mean that we oughtn't prepare what we do, for what is definitively coming, Jon.
Hitch
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I'll bet you it won't come in my lifetime. You need a program that does TTS and looks at the code when doing so. Screen reads are not that.
<em> was not created to be different then <i>. It was created to replace <i> (because it was decide to deprecate <i>) until it was decided that it was a mistake and <em> was still kept because programs supported <em>.
Gotta love a standards committee that does things just because they can and not because they should aka some of the nonsense with ePub 3 (thanks to a committee).