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Jan 21, 2012 7:31 AM in response to Greg4959by Gavin Duff,I don't think iBookAuthor is currently intended to develop that kind of ebook. It's worth searching the Internet for fixed layout iBooks
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Jan 21, 2012 3:43 PM in response to Greg4959by Dave Bull,You can embed audio files. Use the Media Widget, and drag in an .mp4 audio file from iTunes (in ACC format). You can then trim off all the title/background/caption/etc. and shrink the player bar down to fit under your paragraph.
This would be clumsy to do for all the text in your book of course, but it would be a solution for a 'here and there' approach.
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Jan 27, 2012 1:12 AM in response to Greg4959by dlk357,I suspect that an update version of iBA will have text-highlighting as a feature. Remember that they are starting with high school books. When beginner reader texts are more prevalent this a feature that will certainly be necessary.
In the meantime, I think the best option would be a JS widget for assisted reading. For longer works this is generally very tedious as you have to mark the time at which each word is spoken. Best for beginners because the text is much less.
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Jan 27, 2012 4:37 AM in response to Dave Bullby tbrams,I agree, and I tried this already. This model will not work for a language learning textbook for example.
Just too much hazzle - and besides, you cannot shrink the media widget that much anyway... it will end up looking terrible.
I am confident that Apple will at least consider this issue and maybe come up with an elegant solution as usual.
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Jan 27, 2012 4:40 AM in response to Greg4959by tbrams,IDEA: What I think would be useful is somelike like a "mouseover" functionality where you could either show message boxes with explanations, play sound/video and maybe both nicely formatted.