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Originally Posted by At_Libitum
I would feel a tad toe-stepped for being assumed to be 'abnormal'
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So would I, but you have misread the statement. It's a common fallacy in online discussions to confuse a statement like "That's silly," with the statement "You're silly." The former statement is 100% legitimate, because
ad rem; and the latter is 100% unacceptable, because
ad hominem.
You're saying that publishing
short stories as separate
books seems normal to you. I accept your viewpoint. I hope you also accept my viewpoint that I find such a practice to be
non-standard, in the world of literature.
If you don't think it's non-standard, please enter any real-life bookstore and try to find a handful of
short stories published as separate
books. I dare say you will find few or none.
Perhaps modern-day servers like FeedBooks
specialise in the
non-standard -- publishing literature as
files, not books -- but that by itself does not make the practice "normal" in my eyes.
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Originally Posted by At_Libitum
Stanza is truly a 'set once and never look back' e-Reader
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Not true at all. I had to keep readjusting the font sizes in Stanza all the time. Unlike Marvin, Stanza did
not keep the font sizes sticky for each particular book. You happen to have been fortunate with your font sizes in Stanza; others have not been as fortunate.
And yes, MS Word produces junk code, in the supposedly "simplified" HTML version, too. (By the way, that version seems to have markedly deteriorated in, say, Word 2007, compared to earlier Word versions.) The only code acceptable to me is one validated by w3c.org's validator. If I need to clean it up manually once MS Word is finished, that means the code was at least partly junk.
From among WYSIWYG HTML editors, I would recommend Composer, part of SeaMonkey's (ex-Mozilla, ex-Netscape) suite; it produces surprisingly valid code.