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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Vellum is not cutting edge. Vellum is GARBAGE! It needs to go away forever. The code it produces is awful. Do I really want to spend that much time fixing this mess for 9 eBooks? That's the question.
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If you are doing epub and Kindle format ebooks, Vellum handles the media queries which quite a few authors have issues with.
As for cleaning up? I find it takes me about 5 minutes cleanup the average Vellum created ebook. In the first style sheet, I replace the body, p and p.subsq classes and add a media query for negative margins on kf8. Then I run Sigil's mend and prettify to add in the header infomation, CSSUndefinedClasses to remove the mass of unused classes and IDs from the HTML files and then CSSRemoveUnusedSelectors to clean up the stylesheets. Do any other minor cleanups such as the mobi scene breaks and the dropcap code if present and it's pretty much done.
I do have a collection of saved searches that get a workout during this process.
For the most part, this is done on my wife's ebooks since quite a few ebooks she reads are created by authors using Vellum. Relatively few of the authors I read seem to use Vellum.