Actually, I wasn't thinking about the ePubs yet. For me the point is mostly to know what a style is doing. By looking "under the hood", I can see exactly what that style does. When you are used to that by designing with CSS, it's irritating when a GUI hides that information from you :)
Regarding CSS and typography, I believe that the essential settings exist already: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/letter-spacing https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/word-spacing https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/text-indent https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/font-feature-settings https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/::first-line https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/::first-letter What's missing ? :) On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > On 04/23/2013 09:30 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Louis Desjardins wrote: >> >> It?s well worth digging. ePubs are inescapable. It might be that in fact >>> we >>> start with the ePub and finish with the print. The conversion sheme would >>> be from CSS to Stylesheets. >>> >>> I am curious to hear others about that! >>> >> Create the next Scribus's file format as a superset of HTML5, CSS and SVG? >> >> Manuel is absolutely right about huge overlap between features of SLA >> and CSS. And fixed layout in CSS is not such a big deal, see e.g. >> http://www.bisg.org/**publications/product.php?p=28&**c=437<http://www.bisg.org/publications/product.php?p=28&c=437> >> . >> >> >> It's going to be important for Scribus to stick to its areas of > strength. We can expect a continuing onslaught of ePub-making programs > which promise export to PDF, in a sense risking a marginalization or > trivialization of Scribus. An important area of strength will be continuing > to care about quality typography, and design as well. > > It's hard to imagine ebooks being considered great works of either > typography or design, especially considering their device-dependence and > malleability.* So if you begin with CSS, at some point the demands of high > quality typography have to be met. There are, certainly, some great efforts > and interesting developments with web fonts. > > Greg > > *It's interesting to see, for example, the variance in appearance of the > book from bisg.org, as viewed in calibre, sigil, an ebook reader, and > Adobe Reader (the PDF version). The only thing that looks the same is the > cover. > > > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/**mailman/listinfo/scribus<http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus> > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20130424/63e37565/attachment.html>
