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Status of EPUB Dictionaries and Glossaries Spec

Open dauwhe opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

EPUB Dictionaries and Glossaries is an IDPF Recommended Specification from 2015. What do we know about implementations and use in actual live content?

dauwhe avatar Aug 06 '19 19:08 dauwhe

We do not support, and as far as I know have never seen one in the wild.

GarthConboy avatar Aug 06 '19 20:08 GarthConboy

I think we should preserve the descriptive vocabulary which is very useful for publishers' internal production workflows because it offers a standard way of specialized semantic tagging in the HTML format. Of course, we don't have a direct influence on its implementation by RS developers. So I would not invest time in the further extension of this spec now, but also not drop it forever.

WSchindler avatar Aug 08 '19 17:08 WSchindler

I have never seen a reader which implements it or a document which uses it.

pgaskin avatar Aug 08 '19 22:08 pgaskin