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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Dec 3, 2014 4:32PM

Hi Lisa,

Leaving aside tables, etc, results may depend on the question of fixed-page EPUB or not. And as Olaf pointed out, it turns out that people like fixed-page EPUB in many cases. In these cases they will be dealing with how paragraphs and other content break between pages. There’s no avoiding it.

Back to the best-practice question: I guess EPUB-oriented publishing tools would include this limitation naturally, and simply not make it possible to author the types of content I’m referring to.

I look forward to hearing the results of your testing!

FWIW, PDF 2.0 will provide for comprehensive mapping of DAISY tags to PDF structure elements - including for such bugbears as page numbers.

Duff.

On Dec 3, 2014, at 12:58, L Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Duff,
>
> I need to do a ton of testing with this one...I can see where documents
> that are like books in terms of layout and structure may be okay, but then
> if one has a complex PDF with tables, images spanning, oh boy....
>
> I also see that Daisy and ePub are looking at collaborating (started at the
> beginning of 2014), now that is cool! Would like to see the result of
> that...
>
> Cheers
>
> Lisa