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I could do the same, as far as cleaning up the publishers' codes. I should be working for a publisher, but I really have no desire to do so, since I'm retired and do this editing for something to do when I'm not doing other things. |
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I don't have as much issue with weird names, because they probably match the House rules of style and they wanted to make it easy for the semi-trained coders.
What I find about many of these is the coders still have no clue and code the first thing they find ((eg entire book: class="front_matter" ) Personally, I would rather see multiple style sheet (allows the House rules) , with those mostly boilerplate applied ONLY to the relevant pages. Next the main body has its standard stylesheet and lastly, Overrides (for a specific book/series). And why not clean the finished product of excess. If you need to edit, you simply restore the FULL SET of house sheets. Do the edits (and Quality checks), then clean up. Leaving the unused scraps is like a tradesman that replaced your carpet leaving all the trimmings and packaging in the middle of you new carpet. |
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Layout is ART. Code is the MECHANICS that makes it reproducible. |
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To be serious, why doesn't someone at the publishers tell the eBooks makers that the are doing it all wrong? |
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I spent half the day making changes to an ePUB and then needed to reconvert it. I didn't realize that it would reconvert the original and delete the edits I made. Is there a way I can recover the deleted format? It doesn't show up in the recycle bin like I was hoping it would.
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