Many thanks pynch for the continued updates. Joyce is indeed sui generis. Compared to the ancients who walked, breathed, and lived in a way where they saw, sought, and integrated the entire cosmos itself into their deepest instincts, and as such, the old languages such as Ancient Greek and Sanskrit have an expression far beyond what we can imagine today in our simple lives seeking little, Wake continues to be the only example, perhaps the only in the non-ancient age, of seeking such things and attempting to make language express more; Joyce is perhaps the only modern, though others were aware, of an ancient-like relation to language, of seeing and living the infinite and getting grammar to express it. Maybe you'd appreciate this, from your other great ePub of Nietzsche:
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Jetzt weiß kein Mensch, wie ein gutes Buch aussieht, man muß es vormachen: sie verstehen die Composition nicht. Die Presse ruinirt dazu immer mehr das Gefühl.
Das Erhabene festhalten zu können!
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btw, of old probs I had with the ePub, such as that one chapter of Wake displaying on tablets, it's been a while since I've looked at it, though I believe I had fixed it. As the ADE engine is a bit old, though you might not use tablets much, it'd be of great help, if you'd someday so kindly might consider having your ePubs display well both on eReaders and tablets. For Wake, it's particularly useful since with some apps, I can highlight a word, then use a custom dictionary lookup to Fweet. Testing on Chrome should suffice if you were interested. Some other things that would be so very much appreciated for tablet support, are CSS rules such as "letter-spacing:0.1em" for German kerning and "font-variant: small-caps", useful when using another font. Such rules should be ignored by eReaders, and when on a different device, formatting appears great. ADE also has its own style sheet, normally named template.xpgt, with a simple example looking like:
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<ade:template xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ade="http://ns.adobe.com/2006/ade" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<ade:style>
<ade:styling-rule selector="body" line-height="130%"/>
<ade:styling-rule selector="body" font-size="0.9em"/>
</ade:style>
</ade:template>
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That too would help greatly when using the same ePub on multiple devices, and when using a different font, having styling appear on tablets using default line-spacing, base font size etc. I don't mind updating such things when a new release comes out, though I thought others might appreciate it too.
