On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:31 AM, luigi scarso <luigi.sca...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: >> On 18-2-2012 08:17, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >> >>> I would really prefer to use only html tags when a epub file is produced, >>> now the files can be only viewed without problems in firefox (with the >>> epubreader extension) which is nonsense. With the epub 3 standard also >>> mathml is supported and when a reader is used which doesn’t understand it >>> that’s no problem because the standard is AFAIK backward compatible and >>> unknown functions are just ignored. >> >> >> In that case some postprocessing has to be applied to as it makes no sense >> to add tons of code to context to produce a less rich output (also a pain to >> do and it will never be ok). We would end up with ugly kludges like misusing >> <h1> for whatever we like combined with classes that make it titles, section >> numbers, inline highlighting, etc ... >> >> The export is not so much html but xhtml and afaik css can deal with that. I >> woudn't be surprised if future ebook devices could do the same as what >> firefox/chrome do. Also keep in mind that the (now xml) export can be >> converted while some html/class/span/div hybrid would be painful to >> postprocess. Going from rich encoding to poor encoding (rendering) is easier >> than the reverse. I can imagine that we provide a couple of mappings from >> export xml to whatever html. > http://code.google.com/p/sigil/ > has a checker, and it shows some errors. Last time sorry... http://code.google.com/p/sigil/ has a checker, and it shows some errors. Last time I was quite busy to fix ids and something else, but it was before the epub 3.0 which claims to support mathml. I'm still studying the xhtml back end, I hope in the meanwhile that a good epub 3.0 checker appears .
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