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Originally Posted by BetterRed
The ebook creation specialists tend to hang out in the ePub and Workshop forums, some of them have contact info/web site links in their signatures.
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Originally Posted by Denwayz
For instance, when I put the script dialog into tables so as to make the alignment constant, the line spacing went out. So I am finding that correcting one problem is creating another because I don't really know what I am doing.
I am new to ebook production, and I am not and have never been an html programmer. However, whereas I am prepared to do donkey work to make corrections (like putting all the script dialog into tables), and will happily carry out technical directions [...].
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... Dialogue... into tables? That doesn't sound like a good idea at all.
Do you have a screenshot of a few pages of this book? And what you are trying to achieve?
As theducks said, this is where CSS would come into play. If you designed your document properly using Word's Styles functionality, HTML Classes + CSS is similar.
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Originally Posted by Denwayz
This book is designed for 6x9 trim, and the epub output is simply not easy to read. Is it possible to adjust this? If it matters, the font used in MsW is Times New Roman 11.
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In ebooks, it's all about user choice in font and user settings. Best choice is to get out of the way and be as minimal as possible.
Stuff like line-heights, font sizes, specific fonts... that's all customizable by the user so they can read how THEY prefer.
So an ebook reader won't be reading using Times New Roman, they'll be reading using their preferred device's font.
They won't be reading at "font size 11", they'll be reading anywhere from
tiny,
large, or
larger (poor eyesight), or anywhere in between.
They won't be reading on a 6"x9" page, they'll be reading on teeny weeny phones, up to large monitors.
In Print, you are in full control of all those variables, where in ebooks, you are pretty much in control of none.
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Originally Posted by Denwayz
My issue that goes with this thread is that my document is complex with different typefaces (different fonts, different point sizes). If I get the line spacing right for one major kind (using percent) it is wrong for another.
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Different fonts? Different font sizes? Sounds horrifying. How many different variants are we talking here?
Good book design only needs a handful of fonts—3 or less (MAYBE 4 max, and that's really pushing it).
In ebooks for sale, there are also multiple things you have to keep in mind when embedding fonts. One is that it requires licensing of fonts (unless you choose fonts that are freely embeddable, like CharisSIL). Times New Roman + many of the fonts you use in Microsoft Word are not legally embeddable in ebooks.
Hitch wrote a little article about this:
http://www.booknook.biz/ebook-micro-...font-embedding
And you typically have to purchase each typeface (Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold/Italic) individually as a separate fee.