And does it generate a valid EPUB 3? One that would pass epubcheck? Either way, it's good/interesting news. *Paul* -- Paul Belfanti Director, Content Architecture Core Platforms & Enterprise Architecture office: +1 201-236-7746 mobile: +1 201-783-4884 On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Livio Mondini <l.mondini@webprofession.com> wrote: > I agree, many blind people that i know do the same finding much more confortable with HTML. But have you looked at what sort of html Pages generate? > > Livio > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote: > >> I realized today a strange thing when using Mac' Pages program (that is a >> Word-like program for Mac, produced by Apple, although infinitely simpler >> than Word). Pages has various export functionalities. To my surprise, it >> does not have an HTML export; to my even greater (and pleasant) surprise, >> it has an EPUB export. Which makes sense if the document contains drawings, >> for example. >> >> This is pretty much in line with our thoughts on epub.next, and also has >> a side effect. If one wants simply an HTML from a text only page, then >> generate the EPUB, unzip it, and there you have the HTML... >> >> :-) >> >> Ivan >> >> ---- >> Ivan Herman, W3C >> Digital Publishing Activity Lead >> Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ >> mobile: +31-641044153 >> ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0782-2704 >> >> >> >> >> >> >
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