Line height issue

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

It was from a book my wife got as a freebie from Amazon (Southwest Shifters by Anna Lowe, Lisa Kessler, J.K. Harper, Bianca D'Arc). She unpacked the epub and sent it to her Libra and was unhappy with the appearance so she added checking the book to my honey-do list. I've added the CSS to my list of worst ever CSS I've seen.

It's still free and that's still overpriced.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

And then we also get the worst of Word where there is not a style in sight and all kinds of crap in the code that doesn't belong in eBooks.

Typewriter syndrome. Except the flexibility of WP sw means it's worse than any actual typescript, except it's in electronic format.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Typewriter syndrome. Except the flexibility of WP sw means it's worse than any actual typescript, except it's in electronic format.

I bet a lot of the eBooks on Smashwords are awful under the hood.

[Quoth]

So is Archive.org, some Gutenberg and many Amazon.

Stuff that fails Smashwords quality checks can pass Amazon KDP!

WP sw = Wordprocessing Software, not Wordpress and Smashwords.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

So is Archive.org, some Gutenberg and many Amazon.

Stuff that fails Smashwords quality checks can pass Amazon KDP!

WP sw = Wordprocessing Software, not Wordpress and Smashwords.

I've actually seen an ePub from Gutenberg that passed the then current version of epubcheck and it caused problems. It was an unnecessary CSS class that did it.

Smashwords can be awful because of the way some people have no clue how to use Word.

Archive.org is rubbish because it's automated scan/OCR with no corrections.

Amazon can be awful because whoever is making a lot of the Kindle Unlimited eBooks are made by the author who has no clue how to make eBooks.