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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Have you seen the ePub Zen Garden? (Although I suspect that a number of the styles wouldn't work on some portable devices; they may not support all the coding options.)
Setting aside *good* formatting--for a lot of people, basic text is sufficient, and "well-formatted" means - The line breaks are in the right places,
- Extra line between paragraphs *or* indented paragraphs,
- Lines don't wrap between double hyphens,
- No long gaps between words,
- Punctuation is accurate enough that it's not consciously noticed,
- New chapters start on a new page.
I read ebooks for two years on a Sony Clie 320x320 pixel screen, and would've been happy to continue; I had screen problems & battery problems. |
I have to disagree somewhat here.
#1 is OK
#2 is a bit off. Extra lines between paragraphs is very poor formatting.
#3 is way off. double hyphens is poor formatting. They should be em dashes.
#4 is OK
#5 is way off. Punctuation should be correct and not just unnoticeably wrong.
#6 is OK
Overall, those definitions of well-formatted means a book I'd have to reformat to be well-formatted.
I just took a look at the link posted for ePub Zen Garden and I find that the sample is AWFUL. Just go to chapter 4 for a good look at poor formatting. Using the noir styling, I see the C in Chapter is way too big to not be a distraction. The indents are too big and the line spaces between paragraphs is distracting. The text gets lost in the poor formatting.