- From: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 23:40:48 +0100
- To: Ruth Tait <artbyrt@gmail.com>, Colin Pittendrigh <sandy.pittendrigh@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Reid, Wendy" <wendy.reid@rakuten.com>, Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>, "Siegman, Tzviya" <tsiegman@wiley.com>, "PBG Steering Committee (Public)" <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>, W3C Publishing Business Group <public-publishingbg@w3.org>, public-publishingcg@w3.org, public-epub3@w3.org
On 28/10/2021 23:18, Ruth Tait wrote: > I am a designer/artist who spent 2 years working on an MA thesis > exploring possibilities of EPUB as a dissemination vehicle that supports > self-publishing, accessibility and offline rich media. I went the other way. My thesis was on the usability of editing software for structured documents (XML, LaTeX, XHTML, etc) and as I wrote it in DocBook XML, in a way it behoved me to eat my own dogfood and produce an EPUB as well as a PDF. https://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/1690 What that experience highlighted was that while XHTML provides just about enough markup to mark up structured technical documents, the readers are fairly poor at rendering anything beyond headings, paragraphs, lists, and the very simplest of tables. As the EPUB was a side-effort at the time, I gave up trying to fix all the problems. I have been playing with CSS3 for a recipes web site, rendering raw XML directly, without any intervening HTML. I'm impressed by what CSS is now offering, although again the browsers differ in their interpretation and implementation, but I have not yet investigated it for paged media. https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol26/html/Flynn01/BalisageVol26-Flynn01.html Reports of the death of PDF are very much exaggerated, I think. ///Peter -- Peter Flynn PhD FICS Cork 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇪🇺
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