Re: epub

[luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 18-2-2012 08:17, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>> I would really prefer to use only html tags when a epub file is produced,
>> now the files can be only viewed without problems in firefox (with the
>> epubreader extension) which is nonsense. With the epub 3 standard also
>> mathml is supported and when a reader is used which doesn’t understand it
>> that’s no problem because the standard is AFAIK backward compatible and
>> unknown functions are just ignored.
>
>
> In that case some postprocessing has to be applied to as it makes no sense
> to add tons of code to context to produce a less rich output (also a pain to
> do and it will never be ok). We would end up with ugly kludges like misusing
> <h1> for whatever we like combined with classes that make it titles, section
> numbers, inline highlighting, etc ...
>
> The export is not so much html but xhtml and afaik css can deal with that. I
> woudn't be surprised if future ebook devices could do the same as what
> firefox/chrome do. Also keep in mind that the (now xml) export can be
> converted while some html/class/span/div hybrid would be painful to
> postprocess. Going from rich encoding to poor encoding (rendering) is easier
> than the reverse. I can imagine that we provide a couple of mappings from
> export xml to whatever html.
http://code.google.com/p/sigil/
has a checker, and it shows some errors. Last time
>
>
> Hans
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