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Old 11-05-2009, 12:49 AM   #93
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Originally Posted by charleski View Post
You also need a layout artist who can ensure the text is consistently rendered and can add the stylistic touches that readers expect from a professional product. This is perhaps even more true for eBooks than paper ones, as they need tricky CSS coding for anything out of the ordinary.
Now this is an interesting point...

I'll quite happily read bog-standard Times New Roman, left-aligned, no drop caps, a double line-break to indicate a new paragraph. I don't think my reading experience is degraded any by it. However, give me 'stylistic touches' that interact badly with whatever stylesheet I might have made default (because hey, my eyes aren't as good as they once were and I might want that Times New Roman font to be 18pt), and I probably WILL get annoyed.

So... what DO you do for ebooks? I don't mean that nastily, I'd genuinely like to know.
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