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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Dec 3, 2014 10:39AM

Lisa,

>> Don’t author tables, lists, paragraphs, etc that span pages. Unlike PDF,
>> EPUB has (so far as I am aware, happy to be corrected) no means of
>> associating semantic structures that span multiple pages.
>>
>
> I would love to know, because I have found that to be unclear in the
> research I have done so far. Books are the best material for ePubs, as they
> wouldn't have spanning things except text (although that falls under
> paragraphs)…

Why would books (or other publications) not include content that spans pages?

How else would books accommodate long (or wide) tables, lists, etc?

And indeed… how does EPUB handle the situation where a long paragraph breaks between pages, often in the middle of a sentence?

I would suggest caution in adopting a format that could not - in principle - accommodate such content (if that’s the case).

> and I am hoping to use ePub on all sorts of documents,
> anything you can think of...

As you correctly noted, EPUB is designed for publications. It’s not really a general-purpose electronic document format.

Thanks for the link, Deborah. Does the book include answers to questions about content that spans pages?

Duff.