Atlantis does a great job of mapping Styles to CSS during ePub creation however it uses new made-up names for the CSS entries. It would be useful for advanced users and those needing to look at the internal content of the ePub to have the Style names be the same as the CSS entry names when there is a one to one match. There are a number of reasons for this including
1. I know that sometimes the user made a paragraph change that was done without changing the style and a new name will be needed. It can be useful to find out that this has been done.
2. It is useful to ensure that all the Styles have a reasonable mapping in the CSS
3. A competitor does this and it would be nice to remove this reason as a reason to use another product.
Dale
Mapping of Styles to CSS
I agree about CSS. I believe that EPUB will become very competitive to pdf. It makes sense to use the same format for screen visualization, hard copy, archival copy and printed copy. EPUB can be used as a means to convey scientific and other type of data. CSS has the advantage that the browser does the actual formatting. Conceivably Atlantis could have smart tables, which would make it a low cost competitor for Microsoft office. At least initially word and Excel. At one time, I used WordPerfect as my word processor. It had a feature called reveal codes. One could edit the data file. This was a very useful tool. One achieves an improved version by using HTML and or XML syntax and CSS Formatting.
Yours,
Rleif
Yours,
Rleif
All EPUB documents follow the EPUB format specifications, and as such, are documents whose text is automatically reflowed to fit within the available screen width.
On the other hand, PDF documents are fixed-layout documents. Their contents are not reflowed to fit the available screen width. They are displayed as originally designed by their authors.
The EPUB format uses CSS but the actual formatting is not done by the browsers. It is done by the e-reader EPUB code parser.
The code of the EPUB documents created by Atlantis can be modified/customized at will if you use the free Atlantis utility named “tweak_epub”. Please have a look at Modifying EPUB files.
By the way, what exactly do you mean by “smart tables”?
Robert
On the other hand, PDF documents are fixed-layout documents. Their contents are not reflowed to fit the available screen width. They are displayed as originally designed by their authors.
The EPUB format uses CSS but the actual formatting is not done by the browsers. It is done by the e-reader EPUB code parser.
The code of the EPUB documents created by Atlantis can be modified/customized at will if you use the free Atlantis utility named “tweak_epub”. Please have a look at Modifying EPUB files.
By the way, what exactly do you mean by “smart tables”?
Robert