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Originally Posted by vondanmcintyre
I apologize for not including a ToC in the html version. This last week has been kind of complicated and I just didn't get the ToC finished last night when the Dreamsnake page went live. I'll go and do that immediately and let you know when it's finished.
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My point about the TOC was actually the opposite - it is now usual in ebooks to have the TOC outside the reading stream and Calibre will build such a TOC for you from the class=chapter headings. It is ok to have an internal TOC as well, although in a ebook it will typically be after a title page with the ebook name on it. The TOC you added to the HTML looks good, and for on-line reading it does not have to be below the title.
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Originally Posted by vondanmcintyre
I wonder if Calibre takes account of typography such as 12 point type on a 15 point line? The text in the central thumbnail looks kind of squished together, while the text in the third thumbnail loses the spacing between paragraphs. Neither conversion uses the same font that the CSS specifies (Book Antiqua or Palatino). That's probably system-dependent. I though most systems had Book Antiqua.
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What ebooks normally care about is the relative size of fonts (e.g. headings vs standard), since Readers always allow resizing the base font. A MOBI usually lets the reader set the actual font, but ePub and LRF typically set it in the document - but it has to be a font that the device (in this case probably a Sony PRS-505) has installed. If not, the closest (or a default) is used.
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Originally Posted by vondanmcintyre
I'm under the impression that most folks who read from the computer screen or a mobile device prefer left-justified paragraphs, no paragraph indentation (for the first line), and a blank space between paragraphs?
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For MOBI it is recommended not to include the justification, because the user can set this. I agree with CheriePie that a small line indent and little or no extra space is normal for paragraphs. See for example,
A Comparison of format limitations based on The Hobbit - in this case the 1st paragraph is not indented. An alternative is to add a small image, as you do here.