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I'm curious about your view, your ideas about the best UI in Calibre, the best usability to deal with the dilemma of bad CSS/HTML from the publishers.
My own idea is to break the problem down to a more simple usecase.
At the moment the Kobo software has in my opinion a bug in the UI for the layout settings.
The user get's no information that the style rules from the publisher interferes with the style settings in the UI. Nor he get's an option to "disable settings from the publisher" for each specific layout feature.
My idea is, that there will be a Plugin for Calibre which "repairs" exactly that narrow software bug of the Kobo.
The working title could be:
"Normalizing layout settings from the publisher" or
"Eliminating inference from the style settings by the publisher and Kobo" or
...
Then you get the following offers:
1 Font
[x] Remove all style rules from the publisher
Warning: Every part of the book will appear in the font, which is set in Kobo
2 Font Size
[x] Remove all style rules from the publisher
Warning: Every part of the book will appear in the size, which is set in Kobo
Exception: Superscripts and Subscripts will appear in 65% of that size
3 Line Height
[x] Remove all style rules from the publisher
Warning: Every part of the book will appear in the line height, which is set in Kobo
4 Page Margins
[x] Remove all style rules from the publisher
Warning: Not only the page margins may be changed but even margins of paragraphs. If so, and if that bothers you, please disable the option
5 Justification
[x] Remove all style rules from the publisher
Warning: Every part of the book will appear in that justification, which is set in Kobo
The main idea behind focussing on those 5 layout features is to create an interface which is simple enough for normal users, who are overstrained by all the many other possibilities in that area.
What do you think about the idea? Please regard it just as a first sketch.
I would enjoy a discussion about it. Thanks.
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