Devin Prater r.d.t.prater at gmail.com
Mon Jul 19 20:04:06 BST 2021
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Also, EPUb files are almost always accessible. Of course there are comicbooks and such that are images, but EPUB files are great! One can even readthem in Emacs with Nov.el (Nov-mode).Devin Praterr.d.t.prater at gmail.comgemini://tilde.pink/~devinprater/
On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 12:38 PM Alex // nytpu <alex at nytpu.com> wrote:
On 2021-07-19 10:05AM, Jason McBrayer wrote:
For a similar subset of problems, ePub is a great option, and far, far
better on small screens, but since ePubs are, at base, zipped folders
of HTML files, you still have a subset of the "why not a subset of
HTML" problem. I'm not 100% sure how restrictive the ePub
specification is, though, so it might not be a real problem at all.
I think a well-formatted EPUB is the best format for rich-text document
storage and transfer. Bad EPUBs are just as bad as bad PDFs, but good
EPUBs (I point to Standard Ebooks[1] as the best EPUBs ever produced)
are easily renderable and customizable. EPUBs have lots of semantic
markup to allow for very rich rendering (but can also be mostly ignored
for simple readers), and as long as you use strict XHTML then the
software doesn't have to have tag soup parsing or anything like that.
Plus, unlike the Web, ebooks' CSS is more of a "suggestion" that is
usually overridden by the ereader, and mostly exist as sensible defaults
when the ereader had no specific preference configured.
~nytpu
[1]: https://standardebooks.org/
And their toolchain and templates are CC0 so you can make your own
Ebooks with their quality!
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