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Old 12-08-2013, 02:19 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by corroonb View Post
Is there anything they can easily do to fix this? Adjust the italic CSS?
I would agree with PeterT here, Kobo is a seller of ebooks not a producer. Should we blame the local bookseller when an error is found in a deadtree book? Or place the blame on the people who produced the book? While it is possible that some of the issues might be an artifact of the process to Kobofy the epub, I haven's seen that happen in any of the .kepubs I have read.

If the books are not DRMed, you could always try editing to replace the </i> with a </i><space> which is easy enough to do in Sigil. There is nothing you can with the italic css to fix this.

Looking at the preview for Empires and Barbarians, there are 18 italic tags. Several of them are missing a needed space afterwards, several (e.g. Germanic- dominated) have an unneeded space before the opening <i> tag. You also have noticed that Prologue is generally not spelled "P rologue" nor is Contents spelled as "C ontents". Overall, the table of contents alone makes a fine example of the current low standards of quality control shown by most ebook publishers.

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David

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