Thread: Why publishers format ebooks differently than paper books?
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Old 01-11-2014, 06:43 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by Lemurion View Post
Dammit Hitch, now you're making me feel bad for doing my own. I haven't got any special characters, so it's a really simple Word doc with just a handful of styles though.
I'm constantly amazed at how needlessly complex a lot of the ebooks I encounter are, just in terms of CSS usage. I mean, when you get down to it, most novels should use really basic code, especially in EPUB where you can use UTF-8 and just directly embed the occasional accented character.

But no, I always seem to run into the books that define one font for the body, then override that at the paragraph level, and then they change that with a span tag inside every paragraph...

In fact, I was just cleaning up a series of ebooks last night. I love the content, but every paragraph looked like this:

Code:
<p class="c1"><span class="c2"><span><span class=c3">Hey, look,
some words!</span></span></span></p>
Every paragraph. Yes, complete with the unstyled span element.
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