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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
If I make up a book with a certain format in mind, I expect that book to follow that format. I made up those books with my PDA in mind so I didn't make it for a big screen.
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Fair enough - though that's not the case with most ebooks on the market, which is why my general expectation that I'd want to simplify/ignore some formatting, in the interest of readability on PDAs/phones. Obviously the right thing is to let the device user make the decision between "how faithfully do I want to see the author's intended text" and "how much do I want the book to look like a block of flowing text, filling my PDA screen". As I refine the program, I'd expect to introduce options of that kind.
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
And I'd like to point one thing out to you: align and so forth are absolutely NOT a regular XHTML attribute. Format and content are strictly devided after the HTML 4.0 standard. The use of CSS has been "mandatory" with the XHTML standard (either as style attribute inline, as <style> in the header or as <link> with a CSS file)
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Not arguing with you there. My aim was not to implement a fully-capable and standards-compliant renderer (at least, not in version 0.9 of the program). Rather, I was aiming to produce something simple and robust that would at a minimum put the author's words on the page, and have a reasonable stab at some kind of formatting. And for my initial release, I've focussed mainly on producing intelligible rendering of a reasonable number of ePubs that are actually out there and being published by the Gutenberg project, Feedbooks, and suchlike.
Thanks for your interest, and please do continue to share your ideas.
Jim