View Single Post
Old 07-09-2025, 01:43 PM   #12
Sirtel
Grand Sorcerer
Sirtel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Sirtel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Sirtel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Sirtel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Sirtel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Sirtel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Sirtel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Sirtel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Sirtel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Sirtel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Sirtel ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Sirtel's Avatar
 
Posts: 14,170
Karma: 243844663
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Estonia
Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2
There's no One Rule to Rule Them All as to what a well formatted book looks like. It depends on individual preferences.

My personal adjustments are as follows:

- remove any embedded font for ordinary paragraphs (I leave embedded fonts for specific sections, like chapter headings, letters, text messages and so on)

- delete any size for body font other than 1em

- remove any specified line height for ordinary paragraphs

- delete spaces between ordinary paragraphs if there are any (not meaning section breaks and such. OTOH, there are folks who want spaces between paragraphs and insert them if missing)

- change text indents to 1em (I can't stand larger indents)

- delete margins for body text if there are any

- fix margins for blockquotes and special sections if needed

- reduce huge white spaces above and below chapter headings (those seem to be all the rage nowadays, but as they're a total waste of screen real estate, I get rid of them)

- justify text (I dislike left-aligned text on my ereaders)

- other mostly cosmetical adjustments if needed

- fix TOC if needed

Last edited by Sirtel; 07-09-2025 at 02:46 PM.
Sirtel is online now   Reply With Quote