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I remember there being a small to-do J.K. Rowling's latest Cormorant Strike book having bad formatting. Can't remember the specifics. I think it was about side-by-side columns of text that were supposed to take place simultaneously.
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https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=353899 The work on any ereader (not just epub) solution is a table, but that's as janky as you'd imagine. The better approach is a div and float combo, which may work on many epub2 also but not Amazon (not mobi anyway). |
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Hey, that would be handy for ebook versions of No Fear Shakespeare. I enjoyed those in paper.
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Has a revised edition of the book ever been issued? I don't follow Rowling, but would hope work from such a major author would quickly be cleaned up and corrected.
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Apple got involved and got a lot of the multimedia stuff added to ePub 3.
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I have no idea. I only started reading the book because I had read the others in that series, but the formatting mess was so annoying that I DNF. It gave me the perfect excuse to stop reading her altogether. I wasn't impressed.
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And the problem wasn't epub2 vs epub3 but an inept & inconsistent conversion of paper version source to ebook. More explicitly, yes epub3.3 could do it better than what we saw. But so could epub2! |
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My major complaint with EPUB2 was that nobody could generate a clean TOC.
But that has nothing to do with standards. My $0.02: Standards have become tedious, beaurocratic and lots of pages. Instead of saying, "Hey, there is this horrible omission in our standard, let's make 2.1!" No, you invite anybody who has anything to do with anything and throw every suggestion in so as not to offend anybody. Unrelated example, KML (geographic data files): You can make points, paths, polygons. Ok, sounds good. You can color them, fill them. Ok. But you can't make a dashed or dotted line. So, they came in with the new KML. I thought that I found a new convoluted separate namespace to modify lines. But I can't seem to find it now. This is not valid KML: Code:
<linetype>dashed</linetype> Last edited by Renate; 05-29-2023 at 06:26 PM. |
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So you are saying the poor implementation was a larger factor in the ugly results than any deficiency in EPUB 2? Does EPUB 3 improve 2 columns over using EPUB 2? |
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