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I forget if it's been mentioned but do take a look at Pablo's tutorial. See EPub_Tutorial
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Alas, an entire generation has grown up accustomed to the righthand (no CSS) display. They see no reason why books should look different than (oldfashioned) web pages. They LIKE "left justified" text. They LIKE gaps between paragraphs.
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12-22-2015, 09:19 AM | #33 |
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Why the objection to CSS? You can drastically improve the look of a book with probably 3-5 lines of it. I definitely disagree that adding empty space into every paragraph in a book-length HTML document is easier than just adding p {text-indent: 1em} once in a stylesheet.
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As for the different Readers you mentioned, you did not test them properly because if you did, you'd notice that the 505 does NOT allow changing fonts. The only way to change the fonts used in the 505 is to embed them. Anyway, let's say you add all your styling code to the XHTML files and then you decide you want to make a change in the formatting? You would have to find every occurrence of that style and change it. In CSS, you just change the relevant class and you are done. Really, CSS makes life so much easier when designing the eBook. What is it you have against CSS? Why do you want to make life much harder on yourself? |
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The screenshot with CSS is a much nicer looking eBook than no indent, paragraph spaces, and left justified. Indents show us the beginning of a new paragraph. Paragraph spaces cause the eye to jump out of the text which is OK when you are moving to a new section or the next is offset. left justified was to eliminate the large gaps there were possible with justified and no hyphens. Now we have hyphens and left justified just looks ugly. What you are saying most people like is total rubbish. |
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Dang it Jon
I have to agree with you again 1em indent is not enough (for old eyes) I use 1.2, 1.5 and even 2. But if a publisher uses more , I shrink it down to 2 Spaces to simulate an indent |
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Hey, thanks for making me think about that for a second. I'd got used to setting for print at 11/13 w/13pt indents, and for some reason translated that to 1em when I started doing ebooks. That's not right, it ought to match (a sensible) line height, not font size. I'm going to shift to 1.2.
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When I'm reading, I don't really care if it's in sans serif, times new roman, or some hand script. As long as the font is easily readable, it is about transferring data and information to the brain, much less on how it's done. Truth be told, I wouldn't even notice if there was a minor font change from one page to the next, and if I do, I jist ignore it and continue reading. Talking about fonts, this forum often uses different font sizes when browsing it on a mobile device. I doubt many have noticed how sometimes some posts or replies are in smaller fonts than others (using the stock font sizes) |
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