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I'm not sure about that one. Indent size doesn't generally increase with page size in traditional publishing. 1-1.5em indents are what look about right to me, although that's just my personal opinion, of course.
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Indents and margins should be a fairly fixed size. Indents can be an em and margins should be a pt (outside margins only). If you were to use a margin of 5% (a lot of older Mobi & MS Reader eBooks did this), it will look too large because it is too large. On a screen like an iPad, it will just look even worse.
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These are the sort of comments that I'm referring to. Stupid, wrong; you like to bandy those words around quite frequently. There are no laws concerning these and these aren't moral issues. There is no wrong or right. There are some best practices to use when making a commercial epub but even they go out the window when you're making something for your own personal use. Anything more is just your opinion. You're certainly entitled to it but you don't need to be so forceful or rude when voicing it. I've always been impressed with your knowledge. It's just been the way you choose to impart it that gets to me. You're always a much more pleasant person to be around on those rare occasions when you're not voicing your opinion. - Byron Last edited by bfollowell; 03-12-2013 at 02:59 PM. |
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When there are complaints against poor formatting, one thing that's complained about are large indents. 5% is a large indent that does get complained about.
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I mean that an activated footer may have a line on top of it, and then, with zero margin, a "g" on the last line could touch this line, which would look wrong (or just as wrong as it touching the screen edge if there is no footer). If one wants some small margin at some edge, one probably wants it at all edges. Having a zero bottom margin will only give you one extra line when this like is too close to the bottom edge (or footer), and that's exactly what margins are for: to prevent that.
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Agreed! I've changed my conservative 12pt indents to 1.2em and it is indeed "not too big with being just big enough". Last edited by Agama; 03-12-2013 at 05:44 PM. |
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