<div dir="ltr">Actually, I wasn't thinking about the ePubs yet. For me the point is mostly to know what a style is doing. By looking "under the hood", I can see exactly what that style does. When you are used to that by designing with CSS, it's irritating when a GUI hides that information from you :)<div>
<br></div><div style>Regarding CSS and typography, I believe that the essential settings exist already:</div><div style><br></div><div style><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/letter-spacing">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/letter-spacing</a><br>
</div><div style><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/word-spacing">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/word-spacing</a><br></div><div style><div><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/text-indent">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/text-indent</a></div>
<div><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/font-feature-settings">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/font-feature-settings</a><br></div></div><div style><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/::first-line">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/::first-line</a><br>
</div><div style><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/::first-letter">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/::first-letter</a><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>What's missing ? :)</div>
<div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Gregory Pittman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gpittman@iglou.com" target="_blank">gpittman@iglou.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 04/23/2013 09:30 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:<br>
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Louis Desjardins wrote:<br>
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It’s well worth digging. ePubs are inescapable. It might be that in fact we<br>
start with the ePub and finish with the print. The conversion sheme would<br>
be from CSS to Stylesheets.<br>
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I am curious to hear others about that!<br>
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Create the next Scribus's file format as a superset of HTML5, CSS and SVG?<br>
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Manuel is absolutely right about huge overlap between features of SLA<br>
and CSS. And fixed layout in CSS is not such a big deal, see e.g.<br>
<a href="http://www.bisg.org/publications/product.php?p=28&c=437" target="_blank">http://www.bisg.org/<u></u>publications/product.php?p=28&<u></u>c=437</a>.<br>
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It's going to be important for Scribus to stick to its areas of strength. We can expect a continuing onslaught of ePub-making programs which promise export to PDF, in a sense risking a marginalization or trivialization of Scribus. An important area of strength will be continuing to care about quality typography, and design as well.<br>
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It's hard to imagine ebooks being considered great works of either typography or design, especially considering their device-dependence and malleability.* So if you begin with CSS, at some point the demands of high quality typography have to be met. There are, certainly, some great efforts and interesting developments with web fonts.<br>
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Greg<br>
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*It's interesting to see, for example, the variance in appearance of the book from <a href="http://bisg.org" target="_blank">bisg.org</a>, as viewed in calibre, sigil, an ebook reader, and Adobe Reader (the PDF version). The only thing that looks the same is the cover.<div class="HOEnZb">
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