Quote:
Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
This assumes that the CSS is sane. Buckaroo's example is CSS where potentially the same method is used for both paragraph skips and scene breaks, in which case blindly converting line skips to indents will destroy scene breaks. Editing complex and/or nutty CSS can be a ton of work.
|
Of course I didn't mean blindly converting anything. In most books there is a difference between the code for paragraph spacing and the code for section breaks. It will be a ton of work only if there is no difference between the two at all, but that's rare.
Speaking of nutty css, I just finished editing one of the worst examples of this. I have no idea how they formatted the book (just typing everything in by hand, without using any styles or rules?), because there were several hundred different rules for ordinary paragraphs, section breaks, blockquotes and so on - each one had slightly different margins (for example, one paragraph had a bottom margin 5pt, another 6pt; a blockquote had left and right margins 15pt, another 16pt, still another 15pt left and 20pt right, etc. etc. A total madhouse), so they had to be edited manually one by one, no bulk search/replace or regex. Took me two days. Grrr.