Here is part of a long article that should be of interest to anyone setting up books in XHTML.  It's from the ePub Books Blog: What we are going to discuss here is how to format poetry in XHTML format (which underlies EPUB) so that it looks nice on smartphone screens – that is, when many or even all of the lines do not fit the screen width. In other words, our concern is how to break poetry lines nicely. We do not discuss the poems which use non-standard formatting (Lewis Carrol’s Fury said to a mouse, shaped like a twisting tail, is...

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On the A List Apart website, Joe Clark has written an extremely good, extremely long essay on why HTML-based formats are becoming the new standard for e-books, and what needs to be done to clean that standard up. Clark points out that HTML “is great for expressing words”—and not just words in websites, but the form of words used for most fiction and some non-fiction books—what Craig Mod called “Formless Content”. Every e-book reader on the market can display some HTML-based formats—everything but the Kindle can do ePub, and the Kindle’s AZW format is just HTML-based in a different...

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