Re: EPUB 3.3 spec conformity issues

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 08:07:41PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 06:46:39PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have added the EPUB_STRICT customization variable, it does 2 things
> > 1) sets dcterms:modified
> > 2) set an internal customization variable such that td width is not
> >    set with an attribute but with inline CSS
> > 
> > Should I document it?
> 
> THanks for doing this.  I don't think it needs to be documented but would
> needed added as an exception in doc/refcard/txivarcheck.

It is not set in the default case... If we do not document it, I can't
see how it would be used (outside of
maintain/check_epubcheck_texi_t.sh)...

> >   - <a> in <a> for nested @-commands formatted with <a>
> 
> This is certainly a bug in texi2any's output but one that may not be
> easy to fix and only occurs for rare input that the user can change
> themselves.

I do not think that it is a bug in texi2any's output.  It is simply that
Texinfo allow for nested references in some cases, while HTML never
allows that.  Since the browser render nested <a> as we would expect to
match Texinfo semantics, I see no point in doing something different in
texi2any.  We could document that nested Texinfo @-commands output as
<a> will lead to invalid HTML, to help users change their input, but to
me that's it.

-- 
Pat