I managed to resuscitate my wife's iTouch well enough to look at my books in Stanza on it. I wish I hadn't. Stanza basically destroys the formatting. Indents gone, centering gone, spaces added between paragraphs, etc. This is true of both the SW builds and the Calibre builds. I don't know what to do about that.
However, the nighttime setting works fine.
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Originally Posted by toddos
I don't have any real-world examples on hand at the moment (having fixed them myself on my local copies), but it generally ends up as "color: #000000;" or variations thereof ("black", "#000", "#0", "rgb(0,0,0)", etc; basically all the synonyms for "black" that CSS accepts). This almost certainly comes from Word styles that explicitly set the font color to black rather than using the default "Automatic". I'm not familiar with Smashwords' publishing process, whether they provide a Word template or if authors accidentally break things themselves ("The guide says, 'don't use colors', so I'm going to explicitly set my font to black", despite black being a color and the guide should've said leave font colors as default/automatic). That's assuming it's not meatgrinder itself breaking the styles.
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SW does not provide templates. I suspect where this problem occurs, it's in the way the author has set the styles. An easy thing to screw up, as I know all too well.
I guess I'll go over to the support side and see if anyone knows why my formatting is going to hell in Stanza, and if there's anything to be done.