Re: [docbook-apps] Building text title pages for epub3?

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

As near as I can tell from the EPUB3 standard, the <item property="cover-image"> in 
the manifest must point to a raster or vector image.  If you omit the cover-image 
item, then could fake a cover by putting a .xhtml page first that shows just the 
title. That would come from the book content rather than a mediaobject.  The content 
could be put into a DB5 cover element, but the EPUB3 stylesheet currently doesn't 
support that.  Sounds like a feature request.  8^)

http://idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-publications.html#sec-item-property-values

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carlos Araya" <carlos.araya@gmail.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:56 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Building text title pages for epub3?

Good afternoon:


In Epub 3 I have the following media object inside info to generate a cover.

<mediaobject role="cover">
 <imageobject>
  <imagedata fileref="images/image.png" format="png"/>
 </imageobject>
 <textobject>
  <phrase>Temp Image for the title of my book!</phrase>
 </textobject>
</mediaobject>

Is it possible just to use a text object when creating the page? Would I have to 
convert it to an image?