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Originally Posted by Hitch
What a damned day.
Not only did some "prospective customer" excoriate me because I didn't "understand" (yeah, right--I simply stated that I didn't think that he'd be happy with the results) how his book was going to be special, and use js user-agents, to detect WHICH CSS sheet to serve, to a specific device, in ePUB format (this is in the ePUB3 spec, but, kids, it's OPTIONAL, which means that pretty much, like every other optional thing in the spec, MAYBE iBooks has implemented it, but pretty much, NOBODY ELSE), but then--and this is special:
I had to explain HYPHENATION to one of our clients.
What? This person WROTE. A. BOOK. For the love of...s/he didn't understand HYPHENATION? Not how hyphenation works, in a device; basic hyphenation.
I'm still sort of standing here with my "gobsmacked" face.
There are days when I literally don't know if I'm just losing it, or if the world gets more freaking peculiar by the bl**dy day.
Hitch
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I think it is the latter.