[projectaon] Re: Grand Master comment period [Books 15-20]
- From: Jonathan Blake <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:07:25 -0700
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Ingo Kloecker
<projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 02 August 2012, Jonathan Blake wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Simon Osborne
>> <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for putting this list together, Simon.
>>
>> > BOOKS 1-28
>> >
>> > (ne) Illustration Captions: [so: In some books the longer captions
>> > are broken up using <line> tags; in others they are not. Let's
>> > decide which is better and standardise.]
>>
>> What the explicit line breaks are intended to do is turn cases like
>> this where the automatic line wrapping creates an awkward
>> presentation:
>>
>> ~~~~~
>> Two men in ragged clothes are huddled together beside a small
>> fire.
>> ~~~~~
>>
>> Into this:
>>
>> ~~~~~
>> Two men in ragged clothes are huddled
>> together beside a small fire.
>> ~~~~~
>>
>> This has been applied ad hoc because it's hard to know in advance
>> when this will be a problem since letterforms have different widths.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> For the PDFs I have adjusted quite a few of those captions because the
> linebreaks didn't work for the PDFs. In particular, I have changed all
> 3-line captions to 2-line captions. Those adjustments have to re-done
> each time the XMLs change.
>
> For the ebooks we should probably ignore those linebreaks when
> converting the XML because there isn't a one-size-fits-all line length
> for all ebook reader in both screen orientations and with all font
> sizes.
>
> For HTML more or less the same applies as for ebooks although most
> people will probably read the HTML versions with the default font size
> and if they scale the whole web page with their browser, as is common
> nowadays, instead of just changing the font size then the linebreaks
> should still work.
>
> So, to sum up, for the PDFs I optimize them anyway, for the ebooks we
> should ignore them and for the HTML versions I don't really have an
> opinion. Or, in other words, I'm fine with optimizing the linebreaks in
> the XMLs for the HTML versions provided this optimization is done just
> once.
This is making me lean toward not worrying about it and letting the
line breaks fall where they may.
--
Jon
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