05-29-2023, 05:30 PM | #31 | |
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I suspect it depends on the content of the columns. I really don't know. My aim in eBook production is to have the Wordprocessor styles do everything (they ideally map 1:1 to CSS) and also map to <Hx, <p <div <image and of course links/anchors, so that no actual edit of the epub is needed. Occam wrote something like "Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity" (he didn't actually write even the Latin of that, but had the idea of it). Of course purists will claim "figure" and "section" are semantically better than <p or <div combos. Obviously epub2 missed stuff that could have easily been in it then and epub3 adds stuff that needed added. But real ebook versions of paper only need a subset. The HTML & CSS is a means to an end. The W3C should absolutely never have been involved in ebook specs. There should be two versions of epub3.3, one a subset for real ebooks and ereaders and apps that only do ebooks, not multimedia. It's too big. Can you yet have LTR text and RTL text in the same paragraph/line without two columns (or divs & floats simulating two columns)? You could even on DOS in 1989. Last edited by Quoth; 05-29-2023 at 05:33 PM. |
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05-30-2023, 07:21 AM | #33 |
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The worst formatted ebooks I buy are from a house full of aquatic birds.
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05-30-2023, 04:47 PM | #34 | |
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/* HTML5 block tags defined for legacy reading systems. */ article,aside,figcaption,figure,footer,header,main,nav,section { display: block; } |
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05-30-2023, 04:49 PM | #35 |
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I seem to recall that when I read it, I got BOTH the graphics and the text, which was highly annoying!
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05-30-2023, 06:20 PM | #36 |
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All of those "commands" won't work. That's the problem. ePub 3 could be more backwards compatible with ePub 2 without removing any of the functionality. So no, they won't work with legacy reading system that are not based on an up-to-date enough webkit. |
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05-31-2023, 10:15 AM | #38 | |
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I had to think about this,but I'm guessing the animated newspapers from the movies?
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05-31-2023, 11:44 AM | #40 | |
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I don't have some significant objection to ePUB3.3 or 3.0 or 3. whatever; I am not wild about multimedia, I admit it. But the two are not inextricable and the multimedia doesn't supplant/replace the usable bits. And in the past decade, let's face it, all the doom and gloom about the Daily Prophet ebooks has pretty much come to naught. Come on, admit it, boys, we all, all remember the "Immersedition" disaster, right? The closest, thus far, to the Prophet? It burst upon the scene with a fanfare of trumpets and then died a terrible, horrible death. (I still have that thing, FWIW.) I honestly only get maybe...IDK, 2-3 total requests for embedding a link to a video or a song per year now. That's hardly taking over the market. Out of hundreds of eBooks each year. That's a pretty negligible percentage, kiddos. [shrug]. Hitch |
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I recently read another book, done by...Minotaur? A Holmesian Pastiche, by Meyers? Had footnotes which were ABYSMAL to use. Like so* . That's it. Only the asterisk had the link. Nothing else. Now, I have bony tiny wee fingers and even I struggled to tap that. Ended up taking me 3-5 attempts, to see each. Not the increasingly more common[*], with all three characters as the link. Noooooo, just an asterism. I was so angry I wrote to their accessibility department, which, of course, promptly ignored me. Hitch |
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I find all footnotes (even with numbers) a pain to hit.
That's why I LOVE my "flipit" button that alternates between text and footnotes. Another rant: I hate when they format EACH footnote as a separate page. At the very least that screws up page count. A "500 page book" and it ends at page 250. |
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And yes, it can screw up the page count, possibly. It is not, at this time, yet clear to me that it does. Hitch |
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