On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
jim said:
style should be primarily up to the publishing house
my view on fonts is that the end-user picks the font. you are the end-user for our little experiment here, so pick your font. i will not be bothered otherwise...
The day of the publishing houses telling everyone, readers and authors alike, how everything should look. . .is over. No matter how much THEY try to protect STYLE/"LOOK & FEEL" or whatever, in the end hackers will break down the "Three Little Pigs" houses of straw, wood, and bricks, to free up the books to look and feel the way THE READER WANTS. "The King is dead! Long live the King!" Michael
Leave it out and use some extra vertical whitespace
i will not just "leave out" the asterisks, because they signal a scene-break in the original book, which is a very important piece of information that should be retained for anyone who wants to copy out this text.
but i can turn them white, so they become invisible, similar to what i did with the rules you wanted deleted.
It means that when I read this on my Kindle or in my web browser it is so small and leaves so little visual impact compared to the surrounding text that it looks like a mistake.
whatever. i will make them invisible, in keeping with your suggestion to use some extra vertical whitespace.
the new version is up, albeit with old-style asterisks...
tell me if there's anything else, before i change it again.
-bowerbird