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One of the five ebooks did show an error when viewing the book info, but no details were given. That one ebook was not displaying a cover page, so that was probably where the error was. I haven't looked at the source yet. |
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While on the subject of software that handles epub, I tried the Lector plugin for Firefox on an epub that I am building by hand. Since Lector is using Firefox to render the XHTML, things display just fine. There are three problems, however. One is a missing feature - no display of TOC, which is a real PITA. The second is a usability issue - you sometimes have to hit [PG-DN] twice to move to the next chapter. The third is a real nuisance - if you want to delete or modify an epub that you just displayed in Lector, you have to close Firefox completely, not just the tab that was viewing the epub. This last one is a lot of trouble when you are creating an epub and trying to check formatting and such.
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Lector works pretty fine on my desktop and with the files that we generate on Feedbooks, but we really need some validation tool for epub (and quickly). The second usability issue must be linked to the fact that you're using separate .xml files for every chapter. |
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Anything new concerning hyphenation nick ? I'd really like to enable hyphenation on all of the books available on Feedbooks, not just for those using FBReader.
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As for Lector making me hit [PG-DN] twice, yes, the chapters are in separate files. However, DE pages the same epub properly, without extra keypresses. |
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Not to pick on Digital Editions, but I noticed a problem in trying to center some images. The following works OK in DE.
<div align="center"><img src= ... /></div> ----- Using this: <div class="img"><img src= ... /></div> And this in a stylesheet: div.img { align: center; } Works OK in DE. ----- Using this: <img class="center" src= ... /> And this in a stylesheet: img.center {display:block; margin:auto; } Does not work in DE, but does in Firefox. ----- Am I mistaken, or aren't all three valid XHTML? If so, shouldn't Digital Editions display all three the same? The reason for preferring the third method is that it makes the XHTML code simpler and is less for me to type. |
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My reader auto hyphenates it's really not that hard to implement. I don't understand why it isn't more widely implemented.
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I figured out that the above is valid under XHTML 1.0 Transitional, but not XHTML 1.1. I'm still wading through the documentation at the IDPF site, but is XHTML 1.1 required for epub, or is this just a quirk with Digital Editions. For now, I've changed my source files to be 1.1 compliant, but this causes a small problem with FBreader. Don't you just love backwards compatibility?
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I've searched through the specs on the OPF 2.0 package, and don't seem to find a specified DOCTYPE. I was trying to use a third-party tool to validate an .opf file and it needs a DOCTYPE. I can use this tool to validate my XHTML files and my .ncx file, but not my .opf file.
If any of these questions seem stupid, please bear with me, as all this XML stuff is new to me. I'm trying to learn at least enough to deal with epub. |
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MishaS or jmurphy, have either of you modified the oeb2epub script to handle images in subdirectories? I set up a script to use it to go through my hundreds of .lit books and convert them, and then realized afterwards that over half of them do not work, and I think it may be for this reason...Unfortunately, I don't have the python skills to alter the script. Any help?
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On a related note, I put the script into a bzr repository which is available at Launchpad. If you'd like to browse through, use this link |
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