Allowing HTML in EPUBS

[Sarmat89]

Originally Posted by DNSB

What exactly do you mean by a "proper heading"?

A heading like you see in book, or Latex. The HTML 'h' elements were intended for manuals, where the headings are numbered and consist of a single line.

[Sarmat89]

Originally Posted by KevinH

Allowing html as a core media type, means that your html using epub will no longer work with the installed user base of epub3 e-readers, and furthermore any epub3 that used html can not be made to be backwards compatible with epub2 anymore.

Any serious reader is built around an HTML control, which can handle HTML. So the real HTML support can be implemented with trivial changes.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Sarmat89

Any serious reader is built around an HTML control, which can handle HTML. So the real HTML support can be implemented with trivial changes.

Can I get a kilogram of what you've been smoking for my next party? It sounds like some righteous shit.

As for multi-line chapter headers? In ePub2, they were pretty trivial. In ePub3, they are even easier.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Sarmat89

A heading like you see in book, or Latex. The HTML 'h' elements were intended for manuals, where the headings are numbered and consist of a single line.

Umm.... no.

1. <hn> tags do not force text onto a single line
2. <hn> tags do not imply any kind of numbering on the headers

<hn> tags are just like paragraph tags really, except that most (all?) renderers choose to have them in a different default format to <p>

[Quoth]

Multiline headers in Word/LO Writer are trivial to do and automatically translate to
<h2 class="docx-heading-style">A heading<br />
Heading continued</h2>.

Headings were not for manuals. By default they are bolded, but the CSS of docx-heading-style can over-ride that if it uses an already bold/heavy font.

In many applications Shift Enter creates a soft carriage return which translated to <br />
Typing Enter alone ends a paragraph or heading and starts a new one in the default style or current style or the style defined to follow a style.

A soft carriage return never starts a new style/paragraph.

[RbnJrg]

Originally Posted by Sarmat89

A heading like you see in book, or Latex. The HTML 'h' elements were intended for manuals, where the headings are numbered and consist of a single line.

You seem to have a very limited idea of what's possible in ePub. But could you post a screenshot or picture of a heading that you claim can't be duplicated in ePub?

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by Sarmat89

Any serious reader is built around an HTML control, which can handle HTML. So the real HTML support can be implemented with trivial changes.

And then you add in the costs of rewriting the publishing industry's epub toolchain software. And then the you add in the costs of rolling out firmware updates to your epub3 e-readers already in place. And of course that breaks any that are no longer providing firmware updates. Any you keep ignoring the costs associated with breaking backwards compatibly with epub2 only e-readers which are still a big part of the market, especially in Europe, and all of that for what benefit?

You really do not understand epub publishing processes at all.