Thread: Further chapters in the saga of bad ebook formatting
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Old 07-06-2015, 01:34 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by Barty View Post
Obviously some of the problems result from using an automated tool to convert from a word processing or typesetting document. I've seen a couple of retail (not pd) books that have blockquote wrapped around every paragraph, with a left margin of 2em and right margin of zero. Apparently nobody thought this looked weird.
I run into a surprising number of commercial ebooks that have a significant left margin and no right margin (though not wrapped in a blockquote) for normal body text. There has to be something popular in retail workflow that makes this happen. A css template that blindly gets copy/pasted again and again. Like maybe the css for all the right-hand pages of the physical book's layout or something?
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