@Hitch
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I see this, especially here on MR, over and over--because it's SO MUCH EASIER to just make KF8, that's what people do, as if the millions of KF7's were never sold, never used. You can blow it off talking about "Indie authors/publishers versus professionals," but in that line, you are basically relegating the work of those indies to the crap heap of amateurism.
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I'm not competing with you Hitch. You're a professional formatter and I know you have to make sure that all your ebooks look right on every single ereader out there. That's a heavy task for sure. I'm an Indie publisher so my standards will necessarily be different. I haven't got your funding, personnel, test rigs or tax breaks. I haven't got the money to buy every damn ereader out there for testing ebooks like you so why would you expect a low budget indie publisher(retired and on a pension) to be able to afford all that test hardware? Is that reasonable? No it ain't...
To give you the short answer -- I do not format my ebooks for eInk or KF7. And before you rush to criticize the heck out me for this -- please remember that this forum is all about Sigil and epubs. To clarify what I've just said -- I much prefer to follow an international Epub standard rather than a proprietary, off-the-wall Kindle standard like KF7. I also have several ebooks on Kindle(as you well know) that are not formatted for KF7 and I have had no problems with reviews or KQNs. What's more I doubt if any plugin epub converter on this forum will also include all the extra formatting and media queries needed to accomodate KF7s in epubs. And by so hastily blasting and criticizing my own plugins about KF7 non-compliance on this forum you are also unwittingly criticizing DiapDealer(DOCXImport) and Doitsu(ODTImport). Their plugins also only convert to epub -- and they do not add extra formatting to accomodate KF7. You should really be more careful who you criticize or insult on this forum Hitch.
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Not to mention hawking your plugin, or whatever it is you are writing. If you're writing something that will be used by people to make MOBI files, I devoutly hope that you're not ignoring KF7. Not everyone is willing to let KF7 readers fall by the wayside.
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Why should you expect Sigil plugins to accomodate KF7? As I've said, Epub is an international standard whereas KF7 is a proprietary company standard which has nothing whatsoever to do with the epub standard. And if you want to add the necessary coding for KF7 then there's nothing stopping you adding the code manually in Sigil if you wish.
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Oh, and you know what? Go right ahead and keep on using ems for images. I'll wait for the inevitable.
For anyone else contemplating the use of ems, for images, for MOBI OR KF8: just trust me. Don't do it. But, hey, William--you just keep right on trucking, there, since you're SO SURE that you always, always know more than I do.
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I never said the above -- you must've misread it in my original post. To spell it out for you again, my new plugin will transform only the following to 'em':
pts, ins, mms, cms, pc
Do you see pixels or px in the above list?
This plugin only converts sizing and spacing values to 'em' values in your epub stylesheet. It will not change image dimensions in pixels or percentage values. And anyway you can't really convert pixels to 'em' easily because it has a special base value that varies. So your above criticism about my plugin is much ado about nothing.
It is also very apparent, Hitch, that you are out for blood. Fair enough, I've replied. But I really think, judging from your rather hasty criticisms, that your anger is trumping your logic.
Lastly, Hitch, I would also ask you to pull back on the unnecessary insults and the sarcasm. Remember what happened last time we argued? I prefer not to go there. I have not gone out of my way to insult you or use sarcasm against you here. I also do not use bold or capitals in my responses to you. Anyone who uses forums knows that if you use capitals or bold or both then that blogger is screaming at the repondent. If you wish to emphasize then best to use underline or italics. Let's keep it friendly Hitch....OK?