Pagination widows, or, Why I’m embarrassed about my eBook (2023)

The physical copies of my book on Web Typography sold out quickly. I self-published, and print runs are expensive when you’re funding them yourself, so numbers were limited. However, the ebook version has out-sold the hard copy by a significant margin, replicating the design of the print edition as closely as possible. The eBook, hand-coded in HTML and CSS, includes embedded fonts, SVG images, bold typographic heirarchy, and Javascript-driven syntax highlighting. I am frequently embarrassed by how the ebook renders in Apple Books due to typographic issues like orphaned headings. Support for CSS properties like page-break-after remains lacking in some browsers, despite efforts for improvement. Paged media in ebooks deserves attention to avoid typographic mishaps.

https://clagnut.com/blog/2426

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