Formatting
Hey there INKITT Team!
This has already been posted a while ago by someone else but has been ignored as far as I can tell. I'll add their suggestions down below because I think this is part of many things Inkitt needs to do now in order to become competitive.
I've fairly recently grown active on your platform and was wondering if you could enhance or add the feature for us to format our text?
To me, and for my book at least, it is important that I can align some text to the center, and other parts to the right. I actually have to delete some text from my book just so I can submit it here, simply because it needs to be on the right side. Giving us the ability to chose text color, but maybe limit it in some way, would be amazing too!
Now, this probably sounds like I'm advocating a feature just for my book, but I think formatting is an important part of writing a book and it's delivery to the reader. Giving your writers the ability to play around with it, and begin to format their text a bit more in-depth, would certainly be a great boon to INKITT and its community.
The old post by Jenifry Conan:
I suggest opening up the formatting options to allow authors to use centred text and to have paragraph indentations as an additional option to further customise readability.
Before an admin says "this 'may distort the readability of the piece across devices'," you can make these changes optional or restricted.
Centring could be restricted to subtitles (often used to denote jumps in time/ space or to add a mood-setting quote at the beginning of the chapter) and small passages (for poems, author’s notes etc.). I know there's nothing worse than seeing an entire chapter centred so Inkitt could introduce character limits to prevent abuse.
As for indentations, add it only as a ‘customise readability’ option, and not as something the author can add in. Inkitt already allows us to alter the page colour and font size, so why not indentations? This way, the site can alter indentation size between devices so it doesn’t ‘distort readability.’ Other writing sites use this to great effect. Why not Inkitt as well?
My take:
I agree with word restriction. Especially in combination with my suggestion of colors. Maybe five words in a row can have a different color, but then there needs to be one or two sentences in between before you can add color again.
Centered text limitations however will be a bit more tricky. Personally, I'm just thinking about a letter in a chapter of mine, about 600 words (about 1600 the whole chapter.), and the whole letter is centered.
Maybe, the limitation there could be not more than, let's say, 40% of the entire text.
I sure hope something comes from it.
Best regards,
O