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Originally Posted by sjfan
It’s not a body style that violates the rules, it’s specifying text-align on the body style.
The idea is exactly what you say in your first paragraph: if you leave text-align unset on the body style, e-readers can decide whether to justify or left-align the default text. Specifying one way or the other takes that control out of the user’s hands or forces them to use override hacks (which might be overly aggressive).
Of course, specifying it on “most paragraph styles” also breaks e-reader settings; it’s best to only specify in limited sections that may differ from the surrounding text. Obviously centering headers and the like is fine. And if you have an epistolary book like Dracula you might specify left-justified for the letters and full-justified for the newspaper excerpts for effect, so long as you leave the main body text unspecified.
Specifying a set line-spacing, font family, or font size is also forbidden for similar reasons:
https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200673220 |
Thank you. I've explained this before, and I've also explained that putting the alignment on the paragraph style is a specious workaround, because it also will then override any (possibly future) user options and choices on alignments.
Blithely ignoring the strictures, and saying "well, I haven't been punished so far" doesn't mean it shan't happen in the future. {shrug}.
All it will take is ONE reader with the bit between their teeth, and the KQNs shall show up. We've had it happen with a client that was adamant about ragged-right.
They were so pissed-off about it that they removed the offending book from sale.
Hitch