The Reading Vent & Rant Thread

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Solitaire1

I wonder if a factor in this could be that EPUB ebooks don't have conventional pages like printed books. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that with EPUB each page is a certain number of lines and due to that a "page" could be two/three screens in length (that's been my experience with EPUB ebooks).

If you have a pagemap or a page-list in the ePub with the page numbers matched to a specific paper version or are using the Adobe Synthetic Page Number algorithm, you can get that effect depending on the font size and screen size you are using. For the ASPN algorithm, the count is based on the number of compressed bytes in the individual files inside the .zip container file.

To quote Adobe's ePub Best Practices ebook:

Synthetic page names

When page map is not available in the document, Adobe Digital Editions will synthesize a page-map based on the document content. The approach used is the following:

1. Determine a compressed byte length of each resource which is referenced in the spine, subtracting any known encryption overhead (IV size)
2. Assume that there is a page for each 1024 bytes in each resource, rounding up to the nearest whole number of pages for each resource
3. To map page breaks into a resource, use the number of pages for the resource as determined in step 2, count the number of Unicode characters in the resource; distribute synthetic page breaks in the resource evenly between the characters by dividing the number of characters by the number of pages; if the number of characters don’t divide evenly among the pages, round the number of characters per page up and let the last “page” contain less characters than the rest.

[Aleron Ives]

Originally Posted by Solitaire1

What I've been using is a series of dashes as a scene divider, with 12 points of space above and 12 points of space after.

You may get better results by setting a style for the HR tag, e.g.

(ugly inline CSS adapted from stackoverflow)

<style>hr{margin-left: 40%; margin-right: 40%;}</style>

<hr/>

This will give you a small, solid HR that looks the same regardless of the user's screen size and font settings. Adjust the margins to suit your preference for how long you want the line to be.

[Solitaire1]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

You may get better results by setting a style for the HR tag, e.g.

(ugly inline CSS adapted from stackoverflow)

<style>hr{margin-left: 40%; margin-right: 40%;}</style>

<hr/>

This will give you a small, solid HR that looks the same regardless of the user's screen size and font settings. Adjust the margins to suit your preference for how long you want the line to be.

That's what I do in LibreOffice. I set a style named "Change of Scene" and put all of the formatting in that style, then apply it where needed.

Added: If I chose I could just set a border for 1.5pt thick, and then do an indent of 1 inch.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

You may get better results by setting a style for the HR tag...

Or even:

<hr style="margin: 1em 40% 1em 40%"/>

[John F]

When you reading The Reading Vent and Rant thread, and there are tons of formatting posts.

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by John F

When you reading The Reading Vent and Rant thread, and there are tons of formatting posts.

Off-topic. You'll need to create a 'The Reading Vent & Rant Thread Vent & Rant Thread' to complain about that. :P

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

You may get better results by setting a style for the HR tag, e.g.

(ugly inline CSS adapted from stackoverflow)

<style>hr{margin-left: 40%; margin-right: 40%;}</style>

<hr/>

This will give you a small, solid HR that looks the same regardless of the user's screen size and font settings. Adjust the margins to suit your preference for how long you want the line to be.

I cannot stand inline CSS. That's why I posted my <hr/> as proper CSS.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Renate

Or even:

<hr style="margin: 1em 40% 1em 40%"/>

That's even worse then inline CSS.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Renate

Or even:

<hr style="margin: 1em 40% 1em 40%"/>

Blechhh... Inline styles... Styles belong in a stylesheet.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by John F

When you reading The Reading Vent and Rant thread, and there are tons of formatting posts.

Yeah, I agree with this and should have jumped in sooner. Time to take the formatting posts elsewhere and get back on topic, folks. Thread drift is fine for a bit, but it doesn’t work as well in threads that stay active. If people want the posts moved to a discrete thread, lemme know.

[Cactus Chef]

When did "Romantasy" become an accepted genre term, and why do we tolerate it?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

When did "Romantasy" become an accepted genre term, and why do we tolerate it?

It's a great genre. It means DO NOT READ!

[nana77]

While taking the June's shopping cart (the ones I look becomes available the 4th) from the publisher, "The Fountais of the Paradise", by Arthur C.Clarke (1979) at 5,99$ (17 june), has a previous version at 3,99$, released years ago... I mean, the cover on the previous one was also nicer lol.
https://cdn.kobo.com/book-images/697...iso-urania.jpg
(previous)
[https://cdn.kobo.com/book-images/85b...l-paradiso.jpg
(proximate)

[Solitaire1]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

It's a great genre. It means DO NOT READ!

What's wrong with the genre "Romantasy?" It seems similar to "Dramedy" (drama and comedy) on television (such as the show The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd).

[Aleron Ives]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

When did "Romantasy" become an accepted genre term

Never? I've always heard the combination of romance and fantasy described as paranormal romance.