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Originally Posted by Faterson
Spacing definitely is applied to titles -- just not, apparently, your particular titles in your particular book(s), but please don't over-generalize this.  I agree Kris should fix any such issues as we move along. It will be best if you post specific examples to GitHub or send them directly to Kris along with the book. |
Please stop telling me what you think I'm seeing. My CSS margin on H or P tags is NOT being carried through. I'm not over-generalising anything, just asking a question to something that's been bothering me. How am I to know that it's something that only I'm bothered with?
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Originally Posted by Faterson
What do you mean by "constantly re-adjust"?  One of the genius features of Marvin is that you never have to re-adjust anything. Once you set something in a book, it will remain sticky in that book, forever. And, you can easily transfer the settings from that particular book to any other new book, simply by opening that earlier book prior to opening the new book. As explained above, the only setting that is not carried over from book A to book B, is paragraph spacing. Everything else is preserved 100% just as you yourself set it up. If, despite that, the new book does not look satisfactory to you, then the book's code is responsible for that, not Marvin. But the good news is you can always fix the new book's display in a few seconds with a few button presses, something that other e-readers do not allow you to do at all, or only in an extremely limited/crude fashion. |
I believe I've already explained this. "Constantly re-adjust" with every new book I open.
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Originally Posted by Faterson
Absolutely, you still can do that. You must be struggling with some extremely malformatted e-books if you're unable to do that now. The setting of font faces and margins is completely separate in Marvin. (It does seem to me you are conflating "Publisher's Settings" and "Marvin's formatting" if you're getting these impressions.)
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My code is not malformatted, it validates just fine.
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Originally Posted by Faterson
Big deal!  So why don't you press that paragraph spacing button and increase the spacing, so that it corresponds to your 0.75em? As explained above, paragraph spacing is the only feature not carried over from book to book.
The point here, though, is elsewhere: do you really believe other readers will be fascinated by your 0.75em paragraph spacing, as you specified it in your book as its publisher? Let me tell you, the first thing I'd do in that book, is to override that 0.75em margin to one that I prefer. So why, exactly, should it be such an earth-shattering issue that the 0.75em margin may not be indicated instantly when the book is first launched in Marvin? What's the likelihood that a Marvin user (not you, the publisher) will be upset and unhappy upon not finding your 0.75em paragraph spacing upon opening your book in Marvin? I'd say, it's far more likely that whatever paragraph spacing the reader may find in a book, he or she will proceed and modify that paragraph spacing, anyway, to whatever paragraph spacing the reader (not the publisher) wishes to see. |
I'm not suggesting that there be no option for adjusting the margins, I don't care what people do to ebooks they're reading. What I'm saying is overriding the style to zero if I haven't actually pressed any of the formatting buttons seems like not the right way to go. I just want to be able to open a book knowing it will use the theme colours I've specified but retain the typography I've setup in the CSS. It sounds like this is how it's supposed to work anyway but for some reason it isn't for me.