The real problem is that most do not truly understand how to use HTML or CSS or even ebooks. If they did they could get the poetry right. It is not that it can not be done. As for BB's non decorative stand point that is no buggy. change the CSS and Voila! regards Keith. Am 01.12.2011 um 03:22 schrieb James Adcock:
(a problem with p.g./d.p. is that every post-processor makes such decisions, so the library is composed of a myriad of "snowflake editions", with no consistency.)
One can see the opposite problem at Feedbooks, where all book ARE reduced to a baseline consistency – and not made better by having done so.
[poetry] … so if you think you have a solution, you let me know, ok?
In practice what I find I do is physically rotate my ereader to landscape mode and reduce the font size to where the poetry fits – because even if the line breaks are implemented “correctly” [and they almost never are since neither html nor the ereader device really understands how to do poetry] the poetry suffers so much from the line breaks that I’d rather put up with tiny fonts while I read the poem.
and no, i'm not gonna put _presentational_ decorative frivolities in my e-books, like small-capping the first words of a chapter... if something is small-capped, it'll be because there's a _reason._
Which points out the basic problem: BB’s system implements what BB wants and if some PG volunteer wants to do a bit more than what BB wants, or if a PG volunteer feels that a given book *requires* more than BB wants, well, then, too bad. Hm, but now I’m starting to make that sound like DP….