[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by nabsltd

The designers of eBooks can't seem to figure how to consistently use and kind of inline formatting tags (span, em, etc.).

I've seen books with something like the following:

<p>“They <em>knew.”</em></p>
<p>“But <em>how</em>?”</p>

Later, there'd be a wrap of the question mark and the quotes:

<p>“And <em>now?”</em></p>

I don't know if there are any rules about what should get wrapped by the <em>, but pick a standard and stick to it in the same book.

And of course, <em></em> really should be <i></i>. So there's another mistake used by the eBook editor(s).