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From: L Snider
Date: Dec 5, 2014 7:28AM

Hi Deborah,

Thanks for sharing that, very useful!

Cheers

Lisa

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:25 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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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