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Originally Posted by Faterson
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. |
It's getting very tiring this constant questioning of what I'm seeing / experiencing. I'm typically having to hit the "increase paragraph spacing" six times. I have not exaggerated this as the number of times I'm pressing the button might itself be indicative of whatever problem I'm having.
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Originally Posted by Faterson
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.  |
Well I'm so sorry I've published something before checking with you as to its suitability. I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that given there is an entire forum dedicated to Marvin asking a question here would be ok.
I don't know why you insist on referring to me as a publisher, I'm not. I just tweak my ebooks to how I want them, it saves (usually) having to change setting on numerous ebook readers.
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Originally Posted by Faterson
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?  |
I'm not conflating anything. Read my posts again, I've been quite clear. Changing my theme knocks out all of my margin settings, changing back to publisher settings then disallows setting a theme.
Of course I read books by other people, I can't be the only person that runs a book through Calibre and swaps out the crap publisher formatting with their own. I've seen people mention doing this plenty of times on Mobile Reads.
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Originally Posted by Faterson
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.) |
There is a big difference between 0 and 0.75em; it's 3/4 of the total line-height of the text. Assuming a base apparent size of 16 pixels (this is what web browsers default to) and a line-height of 1.5em, 0.75em would be the equivalent of 18 pixels. In other words taller than the cap height.
I don't know where you would be using points in CSS.