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Old 09-04-2010, 02:32 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
I am beginning to think that it might be best to have a base source text of XHTML that's marked up with semantic styles, and then have some scripts that hack that into source suitable for Kindle and for ePub.
You don't need scripts if your XHTML is well-formed. Just write a couple of XSL stylesheets to output whatever you need. Yay for XML and transforms!

But yeah, it's really irritating that one has to not only jump through hoops to get a decent display, but that the hoop-jumping is also kind of wasted because you're not even going to benefit from consistent display across the group of problem devices.
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