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Quoth · 01-20-2024, 12:10 PM

I do remove line-height and white-space on ALL ebooks added to calibre by conversion, even epub-epub.
Also if it's from gutenberg or similar I add extra conversion options, such as smarten punctuation, remove paragraph spacing and add indents (mostly only changes body text). Gutenberg mysteriously offiically believes in typewriter quotes and spaced paragraphs, but they did launch etexts in 1972 and neither unicode (after 1987) nor CSS (approx 1996) nor HTML (1990 approx) were invented till later. Though Hypertext is maybe before 1980s, see Project Xanadu, Dynabook, Futurenet CAD/CAE and Apple Hypercard.

Then if it's a publisher I've not seen before I take a quick look in the viewer. I guess I'm lazier than you as I only edit some ebooks!

IMO '!important' in a published ebook is an example of bad design. Also some ebook designers try to do too clever layout, maybe aided by media queries; again it's a poor design decision. It's not paper, so KISS applies. They have no control over ereader or app used.

01-20-2024, 12:10 PM	#11
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,360 Karma: 105899727 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	I do remove line-height and white-space on ALL ebooks added to calibre by conversion, even epub-epub. Also if it's from gutenberg or similar I add extra conversion options, such as smarten punctuation, remove paragraph spacing and add indents (mostly only changes body text). Gutenberg mysteriously offiically believes in typewriter quotes and spaced paragraphs, but they did launch etexts in 1972 and neither unicode (after 1987) nor CSS (approx 1996) nor HTML (1990 approx) were invented till later. Though Hypertext is maybe before 1980s, see Project Xanadu, Dynabook, Futurenet CAD/CAE and Apple Hypercard. Then if it's a publisher I've not seen before I take a quick look in the viewer. I guess I'm lazier than you as I only edit some ebooks! IMO '!important' in a published ebook is an example of bad design. Also some ebook designers try to do too clever layout, maybe aided by media queries; again it's a poor design decision. It's not paper, so KISS applies. They have no control over ereader or app used. Last edited by Quoth; 01-20-2024 at 12:15 PM.