How to make Kobo's Kepub renderer do its job?

[dgatwood]

Originally Posted by Hitch

(Don't get me started on how he blithely tells them all NOT TO USE heading classes for headings, but to use paragraph classes, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.)

I've had problems with H1/H2/H* tags refusing to allow centering on some platforms (Nook). I ended up using div tags to work around it, IIRC. So he isn't necessarily completely wrong, but paragraph classes... ugh. No.

Originally Posted by Hitch

Anyway, I was wondering if I was being old and cranky (forebear from the obvious comeback on this, gang) in particular about this topic. My gang of merry bookmakers knows that I want them to try EVERYTHING other than important...and if you ask me why, I'm not sure I have a great answer, other than...seems like a cop-out shortcut. {shrug}

It is kind of a copout, except when the reader stylesheet uses it. Then, it is the only option. With that said, I often err on the side of including it for styles that will result in serious misbehavior if ignored—particularly if I've had to do extra work to prevent reader platforms from ignoring those bits in the past.

For example, if I have a special block of white on black text, you'd better believe that both of those colors are specified with !important, because if a reader decides to ignore only one of them... yeah. And still, I had to file a bug against Amazon's LITB previewer about it.