- From: Eric Aubourg <eric.aubourg@soleb.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 10:58:51 +0100
- To: public-digipub-ig-comment@w3.org
Dave, This is really great work, and summarizes very well the main issues! Some comments after a first reading: - There is a typographical usage (frequent in the US I think, and part of Soleb house style) where paragraphs at the top of a page have a first line *not* indented. There are good reasons for this: indentation is useless because you just had a page turn, and even harmful becase when a page starts with an indent, the eye goes first to the second line and then moves up. This should be included in CSS. - About the space break issue, I think this can be solved if the space break is not implemented as an extra blank line, but as a top-margin on the paragraph style. This way the space will never happen at the bottom of the page. - The orphan-widow issue is a good example of trade-off and the usefulness of a possible "severity" feature. Our house-style about orphans and widows is something like "prefer 3, 2 is acceptable, 1 is forbidden". You nicely pointed out tradeoffs are necessary, and this implies, I think, the possibility to give different weights, or severities, to the various constraints. - More generally, one might want to have different styles for the first page of a chapter (no header, a different footer, etc.) - Your example of how lines to be put in sync again after a head calls for a baseline grid feature. This is the only clean solution to keep lines registered in a spread, or in multi-columns styles. - About the footnotes, ePub 3 and html 5 seem to suggest to have them in aside tags. But iBooks for instance does not respect all style requests : it is impossible to use small caps... Apart from this platform limitation this is certainly the right way to implement footnotes. There should be ways to have them pop-up on relevant platforms, and be in specific flows on other platforms. Note that footnotes can also be placed between columns, this is very efficient, similar to marginal notes. Best, Eric
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