ePub and number of page

[Xenophon]

Originally Posted by Peter Sorotokin

Everyone who pays any attention on the manufacturing side has gotten that point across. In the upcoming Reader Mobile SDK there is an API to show/hide those. I think eventually on most devices it will either be off or switchable. But it will take some time to filter down.

Hooray!!!!!


And, from the "give 'em an inch, and they want a mile" department: Can you say anything about upcoming improvements in hyphenation? Even something as 'simple' as what TeX does would be exceedingly welcome. (<cynical voice>It's just a small matter of programming...</cynical voice>)

Xenophon
(can you tell I'm excited about the page number change?)

[Peter Sorotokin]

Originally Posted by Xenophon

And, from the "give 'em an inch, and they want a mile" department: Can you say anything about upcoming improvements in hyphenation? Even something as 'simple' as what TeX does would be exceedingly welcome. (<cynical voice>It's just a small matter of programming...</cynical voice>)

We still experimenting with it. TeX does a very good job in layout, but is not judged by a number of page flips that one can do on a small device before the battery dies. We have access to many good text layout engines, the challenge is to fit such engine into a device.

[Peter Sorotokin]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Peter many thanks for the clarification on the issue of page numbers.
What I am most concerned about is that a standard has to be agreed and then maintained; we have to draw the line somewhere and the sooner the better for consistency, especially as the number of e-readering devices continues to increase.

We are on track to resolve page map vs NCX issue, but, again, it'll take some time to filter down.

[Xenophon]

Slightly but... Speaking of desirable changes for licensees...

Can you, um... encourage them* to pay attention to the standard attribute for sorting by author (I think it's file-as, but I could be wrong). It's super-annoying that my Sony Reader (for example) insists on alphabetizing by the #@*&#$@%* first letter of the visible author-name. Even though the meta-data in their very own format (LRF/LRX) has a perfectly-good entry for the correct value to sort by. Given that ePub has this meta-data available, it would be great if the device makers actually paid attention to it.

Xenophon

* Perhaps some midnight phone-calls with the Marlon-Brando-as-Don-Corleone voice: "You owe us a favor..." might be effective if simple persuasion, documentation, and Adobe's "bully pulpit" aren't enough.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Xenophon

Slightly but... Speaking of desirable changes for licensees...

Can you, um... encourage them* to pay attention to the standard attribute for sorting by author (I think it's file-as, but I could be wrong). It's super-annoying that my Sony Reader (for example) insists on alphabetizing by the #@*&#$@%* first letter of the visible author-name. Even though the meta-data in their very own format (LRF/LRX) has a perfectly-good entry for the correct value to sort by. Given that ePub has this meta-data available, it would be great if the device makers actually paid attention to it.

Xenophon

* Perhaps some midnight phone-calls with the Marlon-Brando-as-Don-Corleone voice: "You owe us a favor..." might be effective if simple persuasion, documentation, and Adobe's "bully pulpit" aren't enough.

Yep. That has annoyed me on many occasions and continues to.