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Thanks so much to you all; you've given me a lot to think about, as has Paul Durrant in an email.
I'll try to respond to each persons comments in one message with as little quoting as possible.
Charleski
- My ECO Reader uses the FB Reader, and as mtravellerh says does not cope with SVG. So though I'll copy your suggested markup for future reference I'll leave it aside for now.
- Paul Durrant suggests leaving the height undefined and setting width to 100%, so I guess I'll have to try each suggestion out separately.
- I really like your idea of using padding rather than margin, and will certainly try that out.
- 'I see you defined a class for a flush paragraph but didn't use it.' The CSS was designed to a standard to be used in other ePub books. Some of them will need to have flush paragraphs.
- 'Personally I really think that setting the first paragraph of a section flush looks a lot better.' I suggest we agree to disagree here; it's a matter of taste, I think.
- 'Although most well-behaved readers will respect the css pagebreaks you insert, some don't (they don't show up in the calibre reader for example). The only sure-fire way to make sure the reader puts in a pagebreak is to break the text into separate flows (separate xhtml files).' Could I suggest that this is a problem for the Calibre reader? The ebook meets W3C and ePubCheck standards. I don't think, at first glance, that it's any improvement to break a short book into separate pages.
- At small values like 2% the difference isn't that great, though the text will be on the verge of colliding with the border for those reading on a small phone. A fixed size allows you to avoid wall-to-wall text while preventing the gutter becoming too obvious.' I must confess that in this first ePub ebook I hadn't even thought of small phones or larger screens. I'll need to think more about this.
mtravellerh and Jelby Thanks for your clarifying comments.
I really appreciate the time you all spent in reviewing the book. Although I haven't agreed with all your suggestions I will certainly think more about them.
Regards, Alex
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