[TUHS] Re: Proliferation of book print styles

Hi Al, PDFs of books have declined too, and with that the book held in the hand. It's as if no aesthetic judging of each page's appearance has occurred; whatever the program produces is correct. Probably because many books are about technologies with little lifespan; either it will wane or version 2.0 will need a new book. Books on topics with a longer life are dragged down. Full justification is still often used. No breaks around the start/stop parenthetical em dash causes the very long ‘word’ to start the next line; the line before becomes 40% space. Sentences which start ‘I’ end a line. Or page. Sans serif used so that ‘I’ is as thin as can be and the font, to my eyes, generally lacks flow. When there's the choice, I skim the PDF and if it's good, go with that. Otherwise, I pluck for the worse-looking EPUB, HTML under the covers, because I can unpack it with bsdtar(1), tinker with the HTML and CSS to fix the worst of the appearance, and then return it to foo.epub for reading. -- Cheers, Ralph.