10-23-2018, 09:41 PM | #1 |
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Annoying And Trivial Conversion Error: "2 em"
I often receive this error when converting a book to EPUB for my library:
The fix is simple: replace "2 em" with "2em" and all is fine. But why do so many books have this issue? It seems to be deliberate on the part of the Publisher. The offending CSS is always for a footnote: Should I be fixing it or leaving it alone, is my real question. Just curious. |
10-23-2018, 10:52 PM | #2 |
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Welcome to quality code from (large) publishers who seem to skip validation
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10-24-2018, 12:27 AM | #3 |
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Fix it if it bothers you, dont if it doesn't. On most readers it will just result in a slightly off left margin for footnotes. On some particularly bad ones, it could result in the whole stylesheet being ignored.
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10-29-2018, 04:29 PM | #4 |
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Thanks, guys. I will carry on fixing these then. I just thought I should check just in case there was some reason for this error to be coming up so often.
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10-29-2018, 08:02 PM | #5 | |
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The other common selfpub error I see, is separate classes per chapter (becomes obvious, when you see differences between chapters ) I now report those that are different to Amazon. |
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11-01-2018, 01:08 PM | #6 | |
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@the ducks,
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Even the titles they "re-sell" from Project Gutenberg are no better than text dumps. Bought a book from Amazon last night — a series of interviews about D-Day from the German side. No style sheet and text being all one file, filled with: Code:
<p style="margin:0.00% 0.00%"> <div style="page-break-after:always"></div><br style="page-break-before:always; clear:both"/> </p> <p style="margin:0.00% 0.00%"> <span style=" font-size:1.0rem"> </span> </p> <p style="margin:0.00% 0.00%"> <span style=" font-size:1.0rem"> </span> </p> <h1 style="margin:0.00% 0.00%; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid"> <a name="_Toc421182594"><span style=" font-size:1.0rem; font-weight:bold; color:#365f91"> |
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11-01-2018, 02:19 PM | #7 | |
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The larger publishing houses and most of the indie authors have gotten a lot better but there's still quite a bit of crud being produced as in one recent book where every chapter had it's own styling, all of which were slightly different. Nothing like line and paragraph spacing and margins changing with every chapter to make reading a pain. In one chapter, a scene break is a 2em space, in another chapter, it was a 3em space with a graphic. |
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11-01-2018, 02:31 PM | #8 | |
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Most do not show any kind of revision history in the front matter. Another thing that bugs me, is frequent cover changes. IMHO If the books contents does not change, Don't mess with MY versions cover |
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11-01-2018, 03:04 PM | #9 | |
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@DNSB,
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I still have plenty of edit enjoyment left to do on the book, but Calibre did the heaviest hauling with one click. |
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11-01-2018, 03:17 PM | #10 | |
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You must have a different need on covers. I find that I have to completely toss or extensively modify just about every cover. A cover appropriate for print rarely has the contrast and legibility needed to be effective on an e-reader screen. Just one more way users of e-readers are under-served. It means a bit of fun in Photoshop to break up the edit session... |
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11-01-2018, 03:20 PM | #11 | |
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11-01-2018, 03:21 PM | #12 | |
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As you say. Once you have calibre set up to convert and add CSS, remove stuff to suit your preferences , there is very little left to fix. I have it strip fonts and strip explicit line heights so that the reader device can manage those. I do find that the free, cheap stuff from Amazon is more likely to not have proper chapter structures and toc , but those get easier to do with practice and a little regex. It is very obvious sometimes that a book is a lazy conversion of a word document |
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11-01-2018, 03:30 PM | #13 | |
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I will admit that several comments about my preferences are to the effect that they are boring. Which I am happy with as I want to read and enjoy the book and not admire the tricks we can do with layout/typography/whatever. |
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11-01-2018, 05:19 PM | #14 | |
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Even using my Tab A, I use the thumbnails in the carousel . I see no need for Photo quality to see the cover art of the book I am reading (most, while decent art, get the story wrong) |
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