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MrPLD · 10-02-2010, 01:03 AM

Jaxx,

I think a lot of books have to be 'mutated' a bit to make them work nicely in eBook format. I've noticed there's a strong popularity for line-height breaks between paragraphs rather than simply indenting with leaving the line-height break to be for between scenes. This may be more important on LCD display devices rather than eInk. No doubt there's going to be a surge of research into this.

Personally I'm going to go over ToL's formatting again now that I've got it on the Kindle3 but at least it's not suffering the torture of the new-line-per-sentence breakdown.

I agree that typesetting is an invisible art - which is why I leave it to LyX (alas that falls apart when it's converted back to HTML).

Paul.

10-02-2010, 01:03 AM	#9
MrPLD Author's pet-geek Posts: 933 Karma: 1040670 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: North Queensland, Australia Device: Kindle 3 Wifi, Onyx Boox M96	Jaxx, I think a lot of books have to be 'mutated' a bit to make them work nicely in eBook format. I've noticed there's a strong popularity for line-height breaks between paragraphs rather than simply indenting with leaving the line-height break to be for between scenes. This may be more important on LCD display devices rather than eInk. No doubt there's going to be a surge of research into this. Personally I'm going to go over ToL's formatting again now that I've got it on the Kindle3 but at least it's not suffering the torture of the new-line-per-sentence breakdown. I agree that typesetting is an invisible art - which is why I leave it to LyX (alas that falls apart when it's converted back to HTML). Paul.