[ntnm] Re: Epub question and txt comment

  • From: Ari Damoulakis <aridamoulakis@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 10:46:38 +0200

Thanks v much Roz
Its a pity it doesn't on daisy though, but now at least I understand.
Ari

On 5/8/14, Roz Olver <roz.olver@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Ari
>
> The ePub format is for use on iPhone and iPad and when opened in an app
> called iBooks, produces a contents page of links (similar to the HTML
> version) to access the various articles.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Roz
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 8 May 2014, at 09:19, Ari Damoulakis <aridamoulakis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys
>> I'm just curious, what's the use of Epub? What I mean is, my daisy
>> player does epub, so I tried a newspaper in that format. I don't know
>> if my player just doesn't, but you can't navigate in any way, I mean,
>> there are no levels, article brakes, nothing.
>> Another interesting thing is the .txt file. In the past, when the
>> files were in .doc, I renamed them .txt, put them on my player and
>> could actually navigate by article, because everytime there was a
>> page-brake the new article started. I'm aware this couldn't be done on
>> other players, even though they had page navigation it didn't go by
>> article, but with the booksense its page navigation did.
>> Now unfortunately if one wanted to use txt format it doesn't do that
>> anymore, so thank goodness for the html option.
>> Ari
>>
>
>

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