- From: Noelia <nrm1977@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 18:16:25 +0200
- To: Bill Kasdorf <kasdorf.bill@gmail.com>
- Cc: George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com>, W3C EPUB 3 Community Group <public-epub3@w3.org>
I strongly agree. Moreover, pages are generally used for reference and quotation purposes, so for me this could be a good practice. Best 2019-05-16 17:54 GMT+02:00, Bill Kasdorf <kasdorf.bill@gmail.com>: > Interesting idea, and George, your metric is spot-on. When I had my > publishing services business the definition of a "page" (especially needed > because manuscript pages are so variable") was 2,000 characters. > > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:47 AM George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com> > wrote: > >> Hi EPUB 3 folks, >> >> >> >> We have brought up the practice of including virtual pages before. The go >> to page function in titles that have a print equivalent is fabulous, but >> what if there is no print version? >> >> >> >> A quick check of character of documents I have handy shows that there is >> approximately 2k of characters on a page. I would think that a best >> practice of placing a page break indicator between block items closest to >> that 2k count would work well. Of course, this cannot be a requirement, >> but >> I wonder about publishing it as a best practice. IMO it would help in >> figuring out how large a title is. >> >> >> >> Thoughts welcome. >> >> >> >> Happy GAAD >> >> George >> >> >> >> George Kerscher Ph.D. >> >> -In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human >> right. >> >> Chief Innovations Officer, DAISY Consortium >> >> http://www.daisy.org >> >> Senior Advisor, Global Literacy, Benetech >> >> http://www.benetech.org >> >> President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) >> >> http://www.idpf.org >> >> Member of the National Museum and Library Services Board (IMLS) >> >> http://www.imls.gov >> >> Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of >> the W3C >> >> http://www.w3c.org/wai >> >> Phone: +1 406/549-4687 >> >> Cell:+1 406/544-2466 >> >> Email: kerscher@montana.com >> >> >> > > > -- > *Bill Kasdorf* > *Principal, Kasdorf & Associates, LLC* > > *Founding Partner, Publishing Technology Partners > <https://pubtechpartners.com/>* > kasdorf.bill@gmail.com > +1 734-904-6252 > > ISNI: http://isni.org/isni/0000000116490786 > ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7002-4786 > <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7002-4786?lang=en> >
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