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Originally Posted by m00min
I'm struggling to understand how you feel that having to click a button six or so times on every new ebook is something that I would want to do.
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I'm struggling to understand how you feel that having to do that a couple of times per week, or once in 2 weeks, is something that one would feel the need to launch a MobileRead thread about.
Besides, you're exaggerating: usually just a couple of presses will do -- 6 sounds like an extreme case.
Most of all, though, this entire thread is irrelevant for 99.99% of Marvin users out there. We are talking about
publisher vanity here, not a regular reader issue. Please don't take this as a criticism of your person -- I'm just calling it what it is. You have created some e-books, and are upset they do not instantly display 100% as you wish to see them displayed. 99.99% of Marvin users don't have those issues, because they don't publish e-books -- they have no idea that e-books contain any
code. What 99.99% of Marvin users, ordinary readers, care about, is whether they can fully adjust the display of e-books to suit their personal preferences, and in Marvin, they can. They couldn't care less about the
publisher's preferences, nor
should they care.
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Originally Posted by m00min
Have I at any point said I needed to adjust anything other than the theme colours and font?
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Sigh.
Again, m00min, you are apparently conflating "Publisher's Settings" with "Marvin's formatting". As explained several times already, you
never need to readjust your theme colours and fonts. You set them
once, and they
automatically carry over from book to book, with 100% fidelity. You, apparently, keep switching between "Publisher's Settings" and "Marvin's formatting", and then complain things don't work for you. Just stop going to those
Publisher's Settings, and everything will work fine for you in Marvin. The
only thing you will potentially need to readjust, will be
paragraph spacing, and Kris gave a perfectly valid reason earlier in this thread as to why paragraph spacing is not automatically carried over from book to book. You will also be reading books created by
other people in your Marvin, won't you?
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Originally Posted by m00min
As for your insistence that my CSS is being reinterpreted, I'm wondering if the 0.75 value is being floored down to 0.
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Yup, that's what appears to be happening. What happens if you change your
0.75em value to, for example,
1.75em? Marvin should
definitely reflect
that, even in "Marvin's formatting".
I'm no CSS expert, just an amateur, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I'm aware, the
default paragraph spacing in HTML is a half-line, or 6 points, which would be
1em. You now wish to
further decrease that by 25%, so your preferred paragraph spacing appears to be 4.5 points. That's such
tiny paragraph spacing, that "Marvin's formatting" may well decide it's so close to zero it might as well
initially display it as zero, and I believe that's a legitimate, common-sense interpretation.
After all, anyone can easily bump up the zero spacing to something else, if they dislike the zero paragraph spacing. (And I'm with you on that -- I hate it, too.)