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Originally Posted by Hitch
Have you gotten the ones where they think that the paragraphs that start with dialogue should be indented, and narrative block-style, or vice-versa? I don't know what asshat spreads that around, or tells people that's the right way to write a book, but it's MIND-boggling to me. I keep wanting to ask those folks, "have you ever SEEN a book?" I've seen more than a few now, and honest to crap, it leaves me speechless.
Hitch
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Why is it that they also insist on having chapter headings that take up half the screen with a heck of a lot of wasted space that happens to look awful as well as waste space on screen?
There there are the books that use small font sizes for the main text. And some books when they try to simulate smallcaps use too small a font size. Sometimes there are indents that are just way too wide (5%). Big paragraph spaces with no indents (paragraph spaces are horrible anyway). When they do simulated blockquotes they do use margins that are too wide/big.
There are other issues like using ID's for ToC entries that just go to the top of the chapter. And <div> with no class surrounding each chapter. <body> with IDs. And many other really crappy coding examples.