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Originally Posted by Nick_1964
With Calibre you can insert a @page rule in every HTML with margins and stuff like that, as it is not in the .css it can't be ignored.
And you can use an xpgt file in the misc directory of the book with the styles in it, that will also be ignored by the patch.
Only.. what takes more time, to adjust an ebook taking out the wrong lines in the .css file and don't use the patch, or use the patch but build an alternative way in the book so margins are not ignored.
For myself, I won't use that part of the patch, because I have more readers, so I convert all books with calibre, insert Amasis font in it, with my margins, so it works in every reader.
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My personal preference is to use Sigil and modify the ebook to use my stylesheet. In that scenario, Metazoa's patch is a non starter. To me, it's using a shotgun as a flyswatter -- the fly ends up dead but the side effects are unacceptable.
Calibre works as a starting point for non-epubs but I really don't like some of what Calibre does during the conversion. On the other hand, my conversions tend to look very boring. Consistent chapter numbering, paragraph style, line and paragraph spacing, all large images given SVG wrappers, etc.
Regards,
David