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Originally Posted by GeoffR
There are lots of ways for the publisher to mess this up though, such as using <div> instead of <p> for paragraphs, using <p> for things which are not paragraphs, etc. |
That is why I always manually edit a book,I can add so many things with an extra.css but there is always one rule that make it "worthless".. 9 out of 10 the publisher tries to make the epub look exactly the same as the book,including grayscales at fonts.. almost every e-reader is capable of selecting a good font,set the margins by hand,justify txt or not,stretch the txt so it will fill the whole line,but publishers want to let it be hard coded..it is almost impossible to make a patch for this because they don't use a standard,they just try their own rules to do it and i think 90% of them doesn't even try how it looks on a e-reader... and sometimes they make you crazy the way they make the lay-out.. we try with patches to get as much as possible on a page, they use line heights of 1.6 or bigger and upper,lower,left and right margins...