Editing Courses/EPUB/day1 (section)

==ePubs and designers==
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''Is there anything for designers in the EPUB format?''

Instead of thinking of EPUBs' design process, as similar to designing a paper book, the process resembles more the development of a Webpage.   

* content must be '''reflowable''' - must adapt itself to the dimensions of the reading device.
* design is no longer specific to the physical characteristics of the container &ndash; ereader &ndash;, but generic, in the sense that it has to adapt to several containers.
* when the renderings change from container to container, the structuring of the text can not rely on visual structuring. Structure has to be semantic: the document has to be semantic tagged so that the text's different elements &ndash; headings, footnotes, body text &ndash; are explicit. If that is the case, even if e-readers changes the rendering of your (visual) design, the semantic tagging (or design) will persist. The ereader it will render a heading as a heading, not simply as a piece of body text.

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