On 10/31/2012 06:13 PM, Robert Gibbins wrote:
On Oct 8th Lee Passey wrote:
4. Book titles should be marked with the<h1> element, "part" titles should be marked with the<h2> element, chapter titles should be marked with the<h3> element, "section" titles should be marked with the<h4> element, and "sub-section" titles should be marked with the<h5> element. If a title is composed of both a main title and a subtitle, the subtitle should be distinguished from the main title by adding "class='subtitle'" as an attribute of the title element. Author's names in book titles should be indicated by<h1 class="author">.
My question is whether writing, for example:
<h3>CHAPTER 12</h3> <h3 class="subtitle">"WOULD YOU?"</h3>
as I think Lee is suggesting above, has any advantages (or disadvantages) over what I currently do which is:
<h3>CHAPTER 12</h3> <div class="chapter-title">"WOULD YOU?"</div>
The first one is horrible. Because HTML infers structure from headings, it says, you have an empty section titled "chapter 12" followed by a section titled "would you?" epubmaker would build 2 toc entries. The second is better, but it says, that the section is titled "Chapter 12". The toc entry would be "Chapter 12" only. The best options is: span.subtitle { display: block; font-size: smaller } <h3>Chapter 12 <span class="subtitle">Would You?</span></h3> Also, books do not always follow the part / chapter / section / subsection / paragraph scheme, so it is stupid to prescribe that h2 should always be used to mark a part, etc. The best option is to enclose the chapter in a div and put a class on the div, while numbering the headings in consecutive order: div.chapter { page-break-before: always } h2 { padding-top: 1em } span.subtitle { display: block; font-size: smaller } <div class="chapter" id="chapter12"> <h2>Chapter 12 <span class="subtitle">Would You?</span></h2> ... </div> Regards -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org