Where/how do we learn how to properly prepare HTML files for PG? I think that most of us (DP) are doing the best we know how and want to do better. Fred From: gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of James Adcock Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 12:31 To: 'Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion' Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] blah blah blah blah blah Ways PG html files commonly fail (listed about in order of what I typically see) 1) People who apply formatting to <p> who think they know what they are doing but do not. 2) Dropcaps by people who think they know what a dropcap is and know how to do it in html but know neither. 3) People who think they can position floats when they cannot. 4) People who apparently deliberately write html designed to fail on one or another common platform. 5) html absolute positioning assuming a particular display size. 6) margin sizing which assumes a particular display size and shape. 7) Text over images. 8) Text inside "images" which ought to be just text. 9) People who think they know how to turn page numbers on or off on one or another target device when they do not. 10) People who think they understand @media when they do not. 11) People who don't know or who don't care about common book formatting conventions. Etc. It may be "vanity" which causes these problems to exist, but "vanity" needn't cause these problems to exist. These "vanity" problems can usually be easily fixed in the html source code, often without negatively affecting at all how the html displays on a desktop computer.