01-14-2009, 12:52 PM | #16 |
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I revised 23 slides for spelling and grammar, and recreated one based on JSWolfs suggestion about TOC and emdashes.
please point out any further errors to me so i can fix em. |
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As for em dashes, it's not about being anal or passionate about them. It's about being true tot he text. If there is an em dash in the original text, there should be an em dash showing on the Reader's screen. As for the headers/footers, they are a personal thing or not. I just think they don't need to be there. They do take up page space and battery life and don't actually look good (IMHO). As for lin spaces between paragraphs, why would anyone actually like them? |
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as for headers and footers. I just like them there. Line spaces between paragraphs make me lose my place while reading much less often. The smaller groups of lines make it much easier for me to go from one line to the next, they give order to the page and let me just read comfortably. And I think most people agree with this because <P> tags in web do have the line space, and so does word 2007 As seen Here |
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Seems we will have to agree to disagree about line spaces (nasty) and headers/footers (ugly).
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But in the end, you have the right to create the books you upload any way you want. And if you're creating them for personal use, all argument is academic. Personally, I agree with JSWolf on all his points: - em-dashes should be preserved - space between paragraphs should be the same as the line space - headers and footers are ugly and unnecessarily take up space - book cleaner should be mentioned, if for any reason, then to help people who could otherwise miss it |
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well, as usual we're discovering the many different tastes and preferences for book formatting. personally i am very attached to headers and footers and greatly appreciate having them. since they are usually in a smaller font than the body text they don't take up very much space and i think they make for a much nicer, more professional-looking book. they are also helpful for me because i often switch between several books, so when i come back to reading it's helpful to see right away which book is displayed, as i might have forgotten. but, of course, it's a question of taste, as we can see.
i also refuse to read an ebook without proper margins. |
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i have seen ebooks with no margins, although probably not yours because i haven't downloaded many lrf books yet ; i find them very unpleasant to read, to the point that i prefer to create my own ebook with a margin instead of trying to read them. the text is cramped and shoved against the side of the screen, sometimes the edge is cut off, the eye has no place to move around and find landmarks, and it's very hard for the eye to keep its place in the page when going back and forth with no margins. i know some people think it's more important to use every possible mm of the screen, but i'd rather turn a few extra pages and have a more comfortable reading experience. |
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I'll add a few Frames on book cleaner when I get a chance.
maybe JS wolf you can take some screen shots of your settings and a sample output, and I'll add it to the Wiki. if you dont have a screen shot program I use this http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=775 which i love and it is portable |
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Personally, I don't have any issues with finding the next line when the text is to the edge of the screen. But I do understand your point of view. One other thing I do is reduce the amout of space between the words. Not so much to cram more per line, but because I feel that overall, it looks nicer when justified as I get less lines with lousy word spacing. |
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01-16-2009, 02:21 PM | #29 |
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I still think you need to address the problems that BD has with text documents, in particular its tendency to create extra paragraphs. In the example of Wells' book in #5 above, paragraphs 2 and 3 are really all one paragraph in the original. In Chapter 1, BD creates 3 extra paragraphs, in Chapter 2, it creates 4 and in Chapter 3, it creates 4.
If you're forced to deal with text formatting from Gutenburg, as sometimes happens, you need to put it through Stingo's macro, available on this site. It's an easy fix for the problem and one that a new user of BD should know about. Jim |
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