From the course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
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Semantic HTML for character styles - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
Semantic HTML for character styles
- [Instructor] So let's consider the character styles that we saw on the last video in the Edit All Export Tags menu. In my experience, a lot of ebook developers don't understand the difference between em, i, and cite, and between strong and a bold tag. It is really important that we sort out the differences between them. They are inevitably used incorrectly, and this is partly because of the clumsy way that InDesign approaches HTML. Let's go back to that Edit All Export Tags menu and have a gander at what's happening. There are several character styles here. So italic, em, and cite. Those are all mapping to CSS that would basically italicize the content. So the content looks the same, but under the hood we want it to look a little different. So let's go back and look at what that means. In here there are three different kinds of italics. So, "She thought, of course her kennel was in the nursery." That's in italics. And then down here. "Of course we can, George." she cried. And then…
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