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Originally Posted by m00min
To use the themes I have to switch away from the "publishers" settings, this is then ignoring ALL of the styles within the ebook.
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No, I don't think it's ignoring them. It is
re-interpreting them based on your original code but, after all, that is what you instructed Marvin to do, by opting for
Marvin's formatting, instead of
publisher's formatting.
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Originally Posted by m00min
All of my carefully worked out spacing for paragraphs, titles, blockquotes, etc are ignored
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Please realize that Marvin is
reader-centric software: it is not obsessed by the
publisher's preferences, enforcing them for readers (like most other e-reader apps do), but Marvin very much gives free hand to the
end user, the
reader of the book, to have the book displayed as the
reader (rather than the publisher) wishes to see it.
To "vain" publishers obsessed with their own formatting ideas and about imposing them on readers at all costs, this will sound like a nightmare, while the ordinary reader will rejoice.
Your situation here is extremely untypical because you happen to be the
reader and publisher in the same person. That is
not the typical situation most Marvin users will find themselves in -- not even myself, and I publish e-books, too.
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Originally Posted by m00min
All of my carefully worked out spacing for paragraphs, titles, blockquotes, etc are ignored
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Not ignored, but
re-interpreted. If you wish to see the book exactly as you specified it in your code, you simply must activate Marvin's
Publisher Settings switch.
Now, if you
still wish to be able to modify font and background colours, or activate the Night Mode
with the Publisher Settings switch active, that is very much a legitimate feature request, and you might wish to submit it to
GitHub for Kris to consider. Quite a few people have already expressed the wish to be able to turn on Night Mode, for example, while viewing "Publisher Settings".
As to me, I don't use the
Publisher Settings switch at all, because I'm just
not interested in the publisher's ideas about how the book should be displayed on my particular device. The publishers have their own publishers' vanity, but I have my own
reader's vanity, and
my vanity wins, at least on
my reading devices.
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Originally Posted by m00min
Having to do those "few button presses" every. single. time is really starting to irritate.
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Well, how many
new books per day do you read, m00min?
Do you really keep loading dozens of new books into Marvin every day? A typical reader will open a new book in Marvin every few days, or every week, or every month... at such a rate, having to do "a few button presses every time" does not feel like a nuisance -- it very much feels like a
privilege, that Marvin gives me the
opportunity to adjust everything in Marvin just as
I wish to see it, and
not as the (vain) publisher would wish to enforce it for me to see.
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Originally Posted by m00min
I'm sure this wasn't the case in an earlier version of Marvin so it feels like a step backward.
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I'm certain your impression is incorrect, m00min. Marvin has
not changed the way it handles the display of books, since version 1 back in December 2012. If anything, Marvin has
improved its fidelity of rendering since then.
What I believe is happening here, is that you got bogged down in the newly added "Publisher Settings" switch in Marvin, and you expect it to accomplish what Kris has so far
not enabled it to accomplish. To improve the way the "Publisher Settings" switch currently behaves in Marvin, you will need to submit your specific requests to Kris, ideally over on
GitHub.