Formatting considerations
I'm hoping the community can help me decide something.
I'm giving a lot of thought to discontinuing LRF as a format that the Ebook Library would host. I've been noticing some problems. For example, I found that after the end of italics there's an extra space. (it took me about 2 years to notice this so I'm not sure how important it is?) But it's most noticeable when there is an italicized word followed by a comma. I was getting sentences like "Hello , this is a test."
I must add that this does not happen in RTF, epub, or the mobipocket files.
There are other reasons I've considered discontinuing the format.
Calibre no longer supports LRF so if there are any bugs they won't be fixed. Sony has switched over to epub, LRF is slowly but surely getting phased out.
The other advantage of epub is that all the new ebook devices coming out, including the Ipad, support epub. (now if Kindle would get on board...)
Reasons I have not switched over to epub myself.
A) I like the font and chapter headings better.
B) No side page margins (like what you see with epub on the Sony PRS-300/500/505/600)
C) Almost all my files are LRF switching over would be a pain.
D) I like the full text justification.
I'm not sure what to do?
In the meantime, I've stopped converting any more files until I have a chance to learn more about epub. I've spent some time on that this week and I have fixed the parts that I didn't like. But I'm not sure I"m used to the different default font style.
I've learned a lot since I've started converting and each format has it's own quirks and exceptions and I sometimes feel like my brain is going to explode, though that could be grad school stuff...
I'd love to hear people's opinions. I'm hoping most people following and participating in this community use the Ebook Library and have thoughts and opinions on the files I'm creating and how they work on your devices???
And in happy news, there are now officially over 1000 stories hosted at the Ebook Library. :)
EDIT: I forgot to add that I am in the process of re-editing the HTML source files to switch the order of the italics with punctuation so the extra space isn't as noticeable, but it may take a while even using Notepad++ because I'm spending every weekend at the library doing homework and that leaves a limited amount of time to edit files, or reupload them to calibre to re-convert.
I did find out why it's happening and it's a LRF limitation because Sony didn't create full font support so there are no bold or italic fonts for LRF. Instead it simulates something close enough and that's why it adds the space.
I may be a little bit compulsive but I don't like the idea of anyone's works hosted on the archive not being as correct as possible and it's better to fix it now while there are only about 100 LRF files...
I'm giving a lot of thought to discontinuing LRF as a format that the Ebook Library would host. I've been noticing some problems. For example, I found that after the end of italics there's an extra space. (it took me about 2 years to notice this so I'm not sure how important it is?) But it's most noticeable when there is an italicized word followed by a comma. I was getting sentences like "Hello , this is a test."
I must add that this does not happen in RTF, epub, or the mobipocket files.
There are other reasons I've considered discontinuing the format.
Calibre no longer supports LRF so if there are any bugs they won't be fixed. Sony has switched over to epub, LRF is slowly but surely getting phased out.
The other advantage of epub is that all the new ebook devices coming out, including the Ipad, support epub. (now if Kindle would get on board...)
Reasons I have not switched over to epub myself.
A) I like the font and chapter headings better.
B) No side page margins (like what you see with epub on the Sony PRS-300/500/505/600)
C) Almost all my files are LRF switching over would be a pain.
D) I like the full text justification.
I'm not sure what to do?
In the meantime, I've stopped converting any more files until I have a chance to learn more about epub. I've spent some time on that this week and I have fixed the parts that I didn't like. But I'm not sure I"m used to the different default font style.
I've learned a lot since I've started converting and each format has it's own quirks and exceptions and I sometimes feel like my brain is going to explode, though that could be grad school stuff...
I'd love to hear people's opinions. I'm hoping most people following and participating in this community use the Ebook Library and have thoughts and opinions on the files I'm creating and how they work on your devices???
And in happy news, there are now officially over 1000 stories hosted at the Ebook Library. :)
EDIT: I forgot to add that I am in the process of re-editing the HTML source files to switch the order of the italics with punctuation so the extra space isn't as noticeable, but it may take a while even using Notepad++ because I'm spending every weekend at the library doing homework and that leaves a limited amount of time to edit files, or reupload them to calibre to re-convert.
I did find out why it's happening and it's a LRF limitation because Sony didn't create full font support so there are no bold or italic fonts for LRF. Instead it simulates something close enough and that's why it adds the space.
I may be a little bit compulsive but I don't like the idea of anyone's works hosted on the archive not being as correct as possible and it's better to fix it now while there are only about 100 LRF files...