Am 30.01.2011 um 01:16 schrieb James Adcock:
jim said:
style should be primarily up to the publishing house
Michael said:
The day of the publishing houses telling everyone, readers and authors alike, how everything should look. . .is over.
I shrug my shoulders. There are things where PG (as a "publishing house") *does* tell everyone how to do it, and there are other areas where the end user has considerable control over how things appear -- if we are talking about HTML, EPUB, or MOBI the end user has considerable control, but not complete control, other than by rewriting the contents of the file. In the case of PDF the end user has very very little control over how things look. Since when! It depends on the tools you use!
The same goes for the other formats, below.
HTML, EPUB, and MOBI end users typically have great control over:
Portrait vs. landscape.
Fonts
Font Size
Margins
How compressed or expanded char spacing is.
How compressed or expanded interline spacing is.
The end users do not typically have control over:
Paragraph formatting, indent, outdent, interparagraph leading etc.
Poetry formatting
How compressed images are to make them small for downloading and storage, vs. how large they are to preserve original quality and detail -- other than from PG choosing to download a version without images at all.
Spacing around mdashes, curly quotes vs. square, etc. -- other minutae of PG "house rules."
Etc.
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