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Originally Posted by DNSB
I would disagree with 80% of the formatting coming from the raw HTML. Can you give any examples other than such oddments as hx tags bolding/enlarging text or blockquote adding left/right margins? Or are you thinking of the abominations created when the author uses inline styles?
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Nah, I'm not talking about inline style attributes. I mean formatting in a more foundational sense. Without extra CSS, it's not like you just get a massive block of text, you still have paragraphs, headers, quotes.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
Is an ebook that looks like a simple text document a shining example of the genre?
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Originally Posted by davidfor
So down-right ugly, and no style at all. I'm not sure if I agree with the idea that 80% of the formatting comes from the HTML. But, if it does, we have the old 80/20 rule. That 20% is what makes the book readable.
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Maybe this is our point of disagreement. I kind of want my ebooks to look like a simple text document. I can appreciate well done CSS, but if it's missing will it hurt my enjoyment of the book? Probably not. I prefer no style to bad style, anyway.
I know that authors probably don't make those decisions, so they never felt like part of the "art."
I've used markdown a lot in the past, so maybe that's lowered my standards.