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Originally Posted by DNSB
I've given up on well formatted and am now willing to settle for consistently formatted.
I recently purchased a 4 book series and every $%^&* ebook in the set has a different stylesheet with widows/orphans from 1 to 3, base font size from 0.75em to 1.3em, images defined in % and pixels, margins and padding that vary widely, etc. It didn't take long to modify them to give a consistent look but considering that the 4 dead tree books share a consistent formatting, is it too much to expect that of the ebooks?
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I've seen where an omnibus has different style sheets. All that was done was the separate eBooks were joined together using the existing CSS from each book. It just seems too much to do it correctly.
I see no reason to not use the default font size for the body text. There's also no reason to put in a line height instead of using the default. Margins can be another issue. With most Readers these days able to set margins, there's no need to set such. And then there are the ones where they try to emulate the pBook with embedded fonts that are too light for eInk. There's all sorts of things the publishers do wrong.