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From: deborah.kaplan
Date: Dec 3, 2014 11:25AM

I don't believe this is the case, at least not with EPUB 3. The
IDPF accessibility guidelines for EPUB 3 specifically talk about
putting how to add page numbers in page-spinning lists, for
example:

http://www.idpf.org/accessibility/guidelines/content/xhtml/pagenum.php#xhtm020-faq04

Deborah Kaplan

On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Duff Johnson wrote:

> 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.
> > > >
>

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