Markup is the basic element of authoring any eBook. To make a book that reflows automatically, you must tag the various page elements as headers, paragraphs, and rules. That information is combined with the package file and cover images to create a Microsoft Reader format eBook.
Authoring for Microsoft Reader format is generally no more demanding than authoring for a browser. Most of the tags and attributes will be familiar to anyone who has marked up text for the Web. Furthermore, many unnecessary, distracting, or inappropriate tags are not part of the Open eBook (OEB) specification, and thus are not available. For more information, review Preferred Formatting for the Microsoft Reader.
Caution: Many tags, attributes, and style properties that are fully supported in the Windows Reader Version 1.5 are not supported by the Pocket PC Reader version. For more information, see Tags and Structures not Currently Supported and Supported Tags, Styles, and Attributes.
This section describes the tags, attributes and style properties included in the Open eBook (OEB) specification and their behavior. It also describes the non-OEB HTML and CSS elements supported by the Microsoft Reader. While some of these tags, attributes and style properties work in Reader exactly as they do in HTML, their differences are designed to provide a higher degree of readability. These differences are detailed in the tag and attribute descriptions in this book.
For a complete description of the OEB standard, the conversion process, and the tools involved in that process, see the Conversions Guide.
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