Hi Jim, How rude to say "… you are saying…" when she did not say what you said that she said. regards Keith. Am 06.02.2012 um 20:14 schrieb Jim Adcock:
Karen>What if DP revised its workflow so that one person combined all the pages, checked for inconsistencies and typos, and marked all the chapter headings and section headings with some easy markup? This text could then be passed to someone who specialized in markup. This would basically split the PP process into two parts. It would resemble a real-world publishing workflow in which editors are asked to mark text divisions before passing the text to the layout person.
Mapping what you are saying to the HTML world, what you are saying is that instead of including the CSS inline in the markup HTML file, we should have that CSS separated into a separate CSS file, and if we needed to target very small machines, or EPUB machines, or MOBI machines then we could just have separate CSS files for those machines, or just do pragmatic marking of some small regions of those CSS files using @media statements and queries so we don't actually even have to create a separate CSS file for each major class of machine. And if you did this you would then have exactly the same thing the rest of the world is already doing to support small machines, and would be using the same exact features that are already built into HTML5 and CSS3 to fix these kinds of problems, because the rest of the world has also already discovered these kinds of problems, and proposed and implemented language standards to deal with them, and HTML browser support for them, and is actively writing their own HTML to address the relatively simple issues required to refactor HTML code so it looks good on big machines, and on small machines, and even on printed paper, and on display-less version for sightless readers, etc. The rest of the world has already done this. It's just that PG and DP haven't caught on yet. Because there is a class of people at PG who always wants to reinvent the square wheel from scratch.
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