Re: epub files and debian?

[Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu>]

Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:

> Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> writes:
>
>> evince cannot handle epub at all. Your statement about "many epub
>> files don't open correctly in evince" should read "no epub files are
>> opened by evince".
>
> Bah, you're right. This is a long-standing request (since 2008!) in the
> Gnome BTS <URL:https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539347>.
>
> The sticking point appears to be that Evince fundamentally assumes the
> document naturally has pages, whereas EPub presents a continuous
> document. No-one has suggested a good resolution to that.

This surprises me.  I'd expect the sticking point to be that the actual
content in an EPUB is HTML, and evince doesn't do HTML.