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Old 07-10-2023, 10:18 PM   #115
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
oh, god, the FORTY.

I'd forgotten. I'd literally blanked it out. Couldn't face it any longer.
Yes, I also forgot about "Mr. 40 Fonts" until I did a search.

There are a few topics over the years that are stuck in my head, like "Footnoteception" guy:

who had footnotes within footnotes within footnotes!

Which was last brought up in this thread with another "super unique book":

... which just turned out to need your typical poetry/lyrics code.

That's a common pattern that tends to happen:
  • User/Author comes in and INSISTS X Book is so unique, requires completely never-before-seen formatting.
  • Turns out, it can be handled just like 99% of all other ebooks, with simple, clean, HTML+CSS.

Very rarely do you get something that requires extremely advanced formatting—and then, it's still a good idea to deviate very slightly from the norm as needed.

Similar to Fixed Layout (FXL) ebooks:

In the extremely rare case, you may have a book that requires FXL. But in 99%+ of the cases, normal Reflowable ebooks are what you need:

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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
That's what is great (and not so great) about having you here, Tex--the RECALL.
lol.

Just make heavy use of the site: trick in your search engines!

And you, too, can learn the searchability superpower!

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