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I agree with her: learning a bit of css and html is not so difficult. I did it because I was not satisfied with the formatting of the books I was reading and now I try to modify them as little as possible so as not to be bothered by them. Obviously those who do it for work know a lot more about it. Sometimes css is too complex and I am not able to do exactly what I would (why that indentation doesn't increase? Why the margin remains at zero and I have to give them a <br> under the image?) But now it is not so frequent. I think I did not waste my time. And I noticed something else: most publishers use horrible css, perhaps made with some program that is used for printing (Hitch correct me if I'm wrong) and somehow they pull out directly from it the epub, which sucks. Last edited by ps67; 07-26-2019 at 11:06 AM. |
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As for that magic WYSIWYG software? It doesn't exist and likely never will—there are just too many ebook renderers that have quirks that don't match the quirks of your WYSIWYG software. You may have a book that looks great on your computer but looks like crap when sent to an ereader or app whether Amazon Kindle, Kobo, Nook or any other supplier. OTOH, that is what keeps Hitch and her colleagues in business. |
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And in this day and age of el cheap-o INDD rental/subscriptions, you get a lot of so-called "print layout designers" that don't even USE styles. (I s**t thee not, it's horrifying). They use adhoc styling for every paragraph...and the resulting ePUB is simply right out of a Roger Corman film. So, yes--generally, that's the guilty party right there. Hitch |
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To do what you are doing, I use Calibre's eBook editor. It works well and is easy to use.
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eBooks and pBooks are not the same and the layout doesn't always have to match. |
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If you need WYSIWYG, you don't get to be picky about how the code looks. As long as it's valid, the tool has done its job. I always get a chuckle when folks want WYSIWYG to create meticulous, "clean" code (not that anyone in this thread is guilty of that). As if it's possible for a wysiwyg editor to produce pretty, unbloated markup/css AND support complex--nearly unlimited--formatting opinions.
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(I had a client, for whom we did a massive non-ficiton print layout, with a crapload of tables, illos, you-name-it, and he didn't like something we did...this is in INDD, right--and he told us to "run it through your program again and get a different output." URGGGGGHHHHH.) Idiot. Hitch |
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