2. ⢠audio/video
⢠Asian language text, right to left
progression
⢠improved accessibility
⢠media overlays (Read Aloud)
⢠scripting and interactivity
BeneďŹts of EPUB3
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3. BeneďŹts of EPUB3
⢠semantic markup
⢠MathML
⢠Fixed Layout
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6. BeneďŹts
⢠Less expensive to produce
⢠Facilitates changes, updates, corrections (in
a single ďŹle)
⢠Facilitates quality control
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7. ⢠Followed by ereader manufacturers and
ebook production people alike
⢠For differently-able ereaders, use
progressive enhancement and graceful
degradation
Standards
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8. EPUB3 in old ereaders
⢠Designed to be backwards compatible
⢠What did use to work in an old ereader
mostly still does.
⢠What didn't use to work still won't.
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9. Minimal changes to
convert to EPUB3
⢠Changes to content.opf ďŹle (including
metadata)
⢠Navigation ďŹle (toc.ncx and new TOC)
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15. Things you still need
⢠dc:title, dc: language
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16. More on dc:title
⢠dc:title has new possibilities
Once you've added an id, you can add
information about the title.And create a
subtitle, and information about it.
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17. But...
⢠dc:title's new possibilities are not yet
supported, and ereaders don't know what
to do with multiple dc:title elements
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19. More metadata
⢠Other metadata is still recommended:
dc:date, dc:publisher, etc.
⢠EPUB3 offers meta elements with reďŹnes
attribute for adding additional metadata
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20. You don't need...
⢠The <guide>
The only ereaders who used it now use
EPUB3 navigation landmarks, which I'll get
to shortly.
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21. The new Navigation
⢠For both kinds of TOC
⢠Unlike toc.ncx, it's a regular XHTML ďŹle
⢠Regular content with some special
formatting
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22. TOC in the Nav ďŹle
⢠Regular XHTML ďŹle, except for special
formatting: nav is just the start
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23. The new TOC
⢠Used both for navigational system and as
content right in ebook
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28. Kindle Fire and old Kindle
both use new TOC
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29. Old ereaders still use
ncx for navigation
⢠The XHTML ďŹle still works as content, but
older ereaders will use toc.ncx for
navigational menu
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30. More 'nav': landmarks
⢠New way to specify cover, toc, index, and
starting page.
⢠Key bit is epub:type="landmarks" in nav
elemnt
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33. Page markers in text
⢠Add an id and the all-important important
epub:type="pagebreak"
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34. More 'nav': page-list
⢠Specify page list with nav and
epub:type="page-list"
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35. Source for page
numbers
⢠The dc:source element can be used to
show which edition of the book the page
numbers correspond to
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55. Liz Castro
⢠Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis
http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com
⢠Twitter: @lizcastro
⢠Whatâs up with Catalonia?
http://www.CataloniaPress.com
⢠The Monarch ButterďŹy Book
⢠Barcelona Beyond GaudĂ
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