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I suspect they might complain. ;-) But let's not forget, Jon--you always feel that "your" way is the "right" way, and it's the right way for YOU. Not necessarily for them. (I know that you said, downpost, that you know that your way isn't the only way, and I congratulate you on that!)
Yup, nice clean code. :-)
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I know my way is very readable. But the advantage to doing it my way first is that if I want to read the eBook, I have it formatted how I like it. But, if the customer was to disagree with it and want changes, it would be rather easy to modify the code as it would be minimalist and very simple/clean code.
[code]Agreed, but as you know, not all do. But I would disagree with you that "most" people use ADE. I don't think that's right. I mean...I don't have another candidate, but I just don't think most people read on desktops, compared to smartphones, dedicated devices, etc. I think that's an assumption on your part, Jon.[/quote]
ADE is used in most Readers that handle ePub. ADE is used on laptops/Windows tablets, and yes desktops (but probably not that much). Some programs use RMDSK (the heart of ADE) such as Bluefire Reader.
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20% of...? You mean, a 2em top margin, or...?
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It's a 20% top margin of the chapter header. That's 20% of the screen left blank for not good reason and it looks awful on any screen.
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Yeah, that 10em top margin is a bit much. :-) I can feel a client's hand in that!
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It's an issue of "Let's make the eBook look as close to the pBook as we can even though that doesn't work for an eBook". And in some cases, the publisher embeds the fonts used in the book and they don't work because they are way too light.
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Yes, but, when was it formatted? Don't forget, for a few years there, back in 2010-11 and so forth, we couldn't DO blockquotes with right-margin indents in MOBI. You always have to look at the year/timeframe that the book was made, Jon.
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I cannot say when it was released originally as I don't remember the title of the last book I saw like that.
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The "problem" with that is, it's a lot of bookmaker time, showing EVERY client EVERY permutation of what they're asking. Really, for what we charge, I can't afford that, and in the timeframes that 99% of our clients want their books, I can't have bookmaker X take that much time to make 3 versions of the book, one with squaring, one without, one with widows one without...that's not an insignificant amount of time. And this conversation NEVER comes up when we're doing their sample layouts...nooooo. It always rears its head later, when the entire damn book is done. It's a bit tiring.
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So how do you handle windows & orphans?
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lol, thanks. Not like I need an invite to spew a bit.
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Hitch
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But your so good at spewing (spewing what may not be appropriate for MR
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