View Single Post
Old 06-09-2013, 08:45 PM   #251
DNSB
Bibliophagist
DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
DNSB's Avatar
 
Posts: 46,754
Karma: 169712580
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Vancouver
Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos
Quote:
Originally Posted by treadlightly View Post
Nope, you're not clueless. I also would like to see orphans/widows set to a value by the ereader that can be specified by the user on the ereader (I imagine many of us would choose 0). I know how to change values in the .css but I don't think the user should have to - all the values for margins, spacing, justification, fonts, widows, etc. should be customizable on the ereader and override the ebook settings.
That one way of looking at it. The other way of looking at it is that the ebook reader should respect the way the ebook publisher styled the ebook. Did they want wide margins? Indented paragraphs? Large spaces between lines and paragraphs? Kobo seems to fall into the respect the publisher styling. Do you complain that physical books are not styled the way you would prefer? Ghu knows quite a few of them deserve complaints but do you even think about complaining?

My personal attitude that I want the ebooks to look the way I want is what has led me into modifying the stylesheets in almost every non-DRMed ebook I own. I don't expect anyone else to agree with all my choices and some of the few who have looked at my ebook styling have described it as boring.

Regards,
David
DNSB is offline   Reply With Quote