On Tue, February 7, 2012 4:45 pm, Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
This is the statement you keep making that is driving me nuts. <div><br /></div> <div>EPUB is a wonderful display format. It is NOT a master format.</div>
Heck, it's not even a display format; the display parameters are determined by the underlying HTML. ePub is an encapsulation and distribution format, approximately equal to creating a TAR archive. To use ePub as a master you would have to first extract and merge all the encapsulated HTML -- so why not just use the HTML as the master in the first place? But what can you do? Mr. Adcock doesn't understand this, and is going to continue to insist that ePub is an appropriate master file type. I suspect that the right thing to do is to say "yes, we'll consider ePub as a master file," then just never do anything to support it. I suspect that if we come up with a good tool chain to get a master file into a good ePub, the whole issue will just evaporate.