Yes, thanks, I've whirled up Book Creator. It is very nice. I've got my own macros that do basically the same thing with regard to formatting. Using it to make output seems to limited (at least me) to single-document books, and I'm finding myself happier with multi-doc books.
Also, he has the macros locked down, so I can't modify them directly, and end up needing to re-modify the pages to what I want them to look like. Not that what he has built in is bad, it's just not what I'm working toward.
Back to css in epub: is there a mechanism to change the css used on the fly in the reader? (It doesn't look like there is). So that means that the css is really only used to consistify the appearance of what you make from book to book, not change the whole look-and-feel of the book while you are reading it. Too bad. I might feel a need to read Jane Austen in a handwriting font one day, Garamond the next.
Also: someone (Kovid?) mentioned something about page turn speed in epub. I've noticed that SOME of the epubs I've been experimenting with seem to take a bloody long time to open in DE. Is anyone seeing this on a Reader? Might be a deal-killer: if it takes for-frickin-ever to open a book and turn the page in epub, 'cause of design flaws in the book or the reading software, it becomes even closer to not desirable.
-bjc
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