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sourcejedi · 06-21-2010, 06:22 AM

Ah. Well, I think it's a general issue with CSS really. The FBReader settings only affect the default style. When the ebook includes CSS, that CSS overrides the default. AIUI, all Smashwords books use CSS which specifies how the paragraphs will be formatted.

If you're happy with other ebooks, then either

- they don't include explicit CSS for how to display paragraphs, OR
- they do include explicit CSS, but it happens to match your preferred style

It's not immediately obvious how to resolve it in FBReader. I would worry that if it tried to selectively ignore CSS, it would break if there was special styling in order to present poems... or if CSS is used to show scene breaks / "thought breaks" using extra space between paragraphs... that sort of thing.

06-21-2010, 06:22 AM	#5
sourcejedi Groupie Posts: 155 Karma: 200000 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Britania Device: Android	Ah. Well, I think it's a general issue with CSS really. The FBReader settings only affect the default style. When the ebook includes CSS, that CSS overrides the default. AIUI, all Smashwords books use CSS which specifies how the paragraphs will be formatted. If you're happy with other ebooks, then either - they don't include explicit CSS for how to display paragraphs, OR - they do include explicit CSS, but it happens to match your preferred style It's not immediately obvious how to resolve it in FBReader. I would worry that if it tried to selectively ignore CSS, it would break if there was special styling in order to present poems... or if CSS is used to show scene breaks / "thought breaks" using extra space between paragraphs... that sort of thing. Last edited by sourcejedi; 06-21-2010 at 06:31 AM.