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Old 06-09-2020, 11:40 AM   #16
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The publisher advertises http://www.arcmanor.com/


Would like to know what award that was.

They publish some interesting and diverse books, but the layout and artwork are at best enthusiastic amateur.

It's very hard for small publishers, if they aren't a ripoff vanity press or reformatting public domain text they've scraped from Gutenberg or Internet Archive. Or genre-of-the-month stuff like zombies/gay werewolves/LitRPG/survivalist gun porn. So still give them kudos for services to literature. But do your typesetting elsewhere.
Purportedly, the IBPA's own Benjamin Franklin Award. Presumably in Interior Design. I can't find them in the last 4 years of award winners, but it's unlikely that they'd claim it if it weren't true...I mean, the IBPA might take a dim view of that.

But I can't find anything else. (If their website is any indicator of design skills, though....oish. I mean, mine is no great shakes, but, Moses on a Pony!)

FWIW.

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Old 06-09-2020, 11:56 AM   #17
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Purportedly, the IBPA's own Benjamin Franklin Award. Presumably in Interior Design. I can't find them in the last 4 years of award winners, but it's unlikely that they'd claim it if it weren't true...I mean, the IBPA might take a dim view of that.
From Google, ArcManor won a silver medal in 2015 for Larry Niven's Red Tide in the F&SF category.[/QUOTE]
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Old 06-09-2020, 12:00 PM   #18
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From Google, ArcManor won a silver medal in 2015 for Larry Niven's Red Tide in the F&SF category.
For what, though? Typography? Interior Design? From whom? A silver medal from whom?

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For what, though? Typography? Interior Design? From whom? A silver medal from whom?
  1. Excellence in book editorial and design.
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Old 06-09-2020, 12:21 PM   #21
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Perhaps it's the editorial. I looked up the book on Amazon, and granted, I can only see about 6 pages, but...for design?

I guess I should shaddup now. Don't want to diss publishers.

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Old 06-09-2020, 04:29 PM   #23
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Old 06-09-2020, 04:52 PM   #24
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FWIW,

To fix this, I am thinking on Import of a new Epub:

Run the following screen:
file size >= 300k and number of new lines less than 4

If true, then run mend on file before first opened, if mend on open is set.



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Old 06-09-2020, 06:19 PM   #25
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At least your example has long runs of untagged words. I've gotten books where every word has a span around it. Admittedly the spans only had a class, not a style.
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At least your example has long runs of untagged words. I've gotten books where every word has a span around it. Admittedly the spans only had a class, not a style.
The worst example I've seen for abuse of spans was one where there were spans around words and around letters inside the words. Most of them involved letter spacing.
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The worst example I've seen for abuse of spans was one where there were spans around words and around letters inside the words. Most of them involved letter spacing.
It's stuff like these is one reason I really like Diap's Toolbox plugin. Those pesky spans or divs can be handled fairly easily.
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FWIW,

To fix this, I am thinking on Import of a new Epub:

Run the following screen:
file size >= 300k and number of new lines less than 4

If true, then run mend on file before first opened, if mend on open is set.
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Run the following screen:
file size >= 300k and number of new lines less than 4

If true, then run mend on file before first opened, if mend on open is set.
I am voting for this proposal.
When I open such an epub file, I am forced to do mend, otherwise I cannot work (Sigil doesn't respond). It may be a small thing, but I have an old computer, so such initial mend will be very useful.
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Okay,
I just pushed this to master. ImportEpub will now consider any xhtml file over 300K in size with 4 or fewer new lines as being essentially malformed.

If the user has Mend on Open set in their preferences, they will be alerted to it and asked if they want to mend it.

Using this approach, I had no issues loading the problem testcase.
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