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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
short answer : yes. 
there are a few differences between html 4.01 and xhtml 1.1 and epub is based on xhtml, so reverting to html *will* work (more or less) but will not give as good results.
on the other hand, when you say it was a "disaster" that surprises me a bit, how bad was it ? |
A graphic which was centred in the Mobipocket version was flush with the left margin with ePub version, and lists which displayed adequately (not well) in the Mobipocket version displayed very poorly in the ePub version - for an unordered list there may have been bullets half hidden in the left margin, but there was no indentation, and for an ordered list there was no sign of numbers or indentation.
It's even more puzzling that my first check, where the output was very poor, was with ADE on my desktop - I don't yet have an epub reader - but when I checked the same ePub document on Calibre's built in viewer it looked fine. In fact it looked far better than the Mobipocket version. So I still don't know what's going on - unless of course Calibre changed my file to XHTML 1.1 and ADE can't or won't.
On a slightly divergent topic, I haven't yet caught up with XHTML 1.1, and none of the books I have mention it. Can you point me to a source please where I can read up on it?
And on another divergent topic, I was Alec until adolescence (a
long time ago) when I met a friend who was also called Alec. So we tossed a coin and I became Alex and have remained that way since.
Regards, Alex