Quoth wrote the following as part of a post:
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Originally Posted by Quoth
No, that's rubbish. Like a worprocessor where you can't change styles or templates. Some big companies do that and produce rubbish. You'd need 100s of redundant styles to cover all the common kinds of publications. Or like a spreadsheet that's locked and only lets you enter data for one use case.
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That's not what I was saying. Nothing is locked, the original source file is just a starting point to let everyone know what the ebook is intended to look like, but the distillation program will remove/adjust the coding, depending what is needed, resulting in a perfectly formatted ebook. Each Publisher takes the same original source file and adjusts it to their own needs, but only one original source file is needed. It's basically "format once, convert many times."
Returning back to topic, that is one of my issues with ebooks. By this time there should be little difficulty properly formatting an ebook, but it seems there still are.