Thread: Is it possible to do this with just standard ePub3?
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Old 09-16-2024, 08:24 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Perhaps you are trying to change the playing field?

As for displaying a line of text to make it a single line regardless of screen width/font size? Have you ever looked at a fixed layout epub3? That will do exactly what you seem to want. Of course, about as useless as a PDF when reading on smaller displays though like PDF, they can have real page numbers. I have several ePub3 FLOs. One textbook works but was totally useless when a line of text that was barely readable on an iPad in landscape mode was displayed on an iPhone SE in portrait mode. Flyspeck 4 is not my favoured font size.

As I mentioned earlier, ePub4 is supposedly going to be fully compliant with Web Publications (if and when Web Publications stops being a moving target) but how long before any devices implement it?
The other issue is that the additions to make ePub 3.0 into 3.1 aren't really supported. And you can't grantee that webkit will be the underlying rendering engine.
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