On 17-2-2011 9:10, Daniel Lyons wrote:
ePub is definitely structured. I would say too structured, since it makes you provide both a ToC manifest and a navigation manifest that necessarily must include almost identical information ;) Of course, depending on a simplified browser for your document viewing and having lots of secret failover modes to handle poorly formatted documents makes the structure less meaningful than it ought to be.
You are free to break your document into as many HTML chunks as you wish, but you are limited to fairly prosaic HTML and CSS. I'm of the impression the HTML documents generally map onto chapters so as not to distress the hardware's memory constraints too much.
what mean with not being structured is that clever css trickery can hide weird structure i have a style somewhere that typesets an epub document (directly) but when testing an epub file from somehwere it found out that there were artifacts like <H1>1</H1><H3>Chapter title</H3> so i decided not to spend too much time on it and only bother with epub if it comes to me as project Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------