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Originally Posted by m00min
I would be fine using my book's default paragraph spacing settings
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That's exactly what's happening.
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Originally Posted by m00min
but if I want to use Marvin's themes it then ignores the paragraph margins set within my ebooks. It seems my choice is an all-or-nothing one.
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I don't think so. It's definitely not "all or nothing". "Marvin's formatting" re-interprets your original code, but that always only happens in response to the button presses you make in Marvin. The fidelity of rendering has been increasing in Marvin from version to version, and will continue to do so.
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Originally Posted by m00min
Is this a safety feature?
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Yes, that's what Kris is saying. But it really applies to
paragraph spacing only. Everything else, including font sizes, is opened in the new book
exactly as it was set up in the previous book you had opened in Marvin before opening the new book.
But here is the problem: for publisher A, his default may be font size 10, while for publisher B, his default may be font size 15. They should
not be specifying any
rigidly fixed font sizes (
12pt versus
1.2em), but they do it anyway. It's weird, but publishers are weird (often incompetent, in terms of coding) folks.
So, if your preference in book A was to increase the font size by 30%, so that you get to see font size 13 instead of 10, and you then open book B, then a 30% increase from font 15 is
font 20, and you end up with ridiculously huge fonts everywhere in that book. That's what keeps happening with badly formatted e-books, and it seems
most e-books, including professionally published ones, are badly formatted.
The good news is: all it takes is a few button presses in Marvin to fix the typesetting to your personal liking -- and that setting will remain sticky forever in
that particular book in Marvin for you.
