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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Well, this thread is a depressing lesson in human stupidity.  Why DO they do these things?
Personally, if editing an ebook to adjust for my personal preferences, I like to follow a basic rule of
<h2>Chapter #</h2>
<p>paragraph with <b>bold</b> and <i>italic</i> words (maybe).</p>
<p class="scenebreak">* * *</p>
and a text-indent on the paragraphs, center the chapter, center and marginize the scenebreak.
As a reader, mostly of Fiction where pictures are perhaps not as common,  I find it difficult to see why any more than that could ever be needed, although I bet the experts here could find something to prove me wrong.  |
I prefer to use a <span class="foo"> in place of <b> or <i>
I can do so much (all in one place) in a stylesheet
I had a case with a font that the
italic font: looked poor/missing glyph.
It was simple to do a stylesheet tweak (alternate face call)
Baen (Arnold era) used a <30 line stylesheet for all their EPUB
I do like a little more, but it ONLY exists to support visual embellishments (styled headers, dropcaps, special paragraphs...)