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mtrahan · 05-31-2011, 09:57 AM

It indeed was a "funny display thing" with Sigil. I don't know exactly what "fixed" it, but text went back to normal display while I was playing with something that seemed unrelated in the CSS (an element unrelated to those I posted). I just hope that it really isn't a problem with the ePub—I would hate to see the text appears all in smallcaps on certain e-readers.

That said, since JSWolf cleaned my CSS, I have a couple questions on the subject. First, I see that "line-height" attribute was removed: is it because this element isn't really used by e-readers? I was thinking of removing it but wasn't sure.

I see that "font-size: normal" and "font-variant: normal" (I let that one there thinking that it could help avoid smallcaps) were removed. And the font-size of the <h1> element declared with "x-large" value instead of em: why is it better to do this?

Also is there an advantage to declaring the 4 margins separately instead of all on same line?

And, last question about css, why declaring the margins in pixels instead of em?

Now that I'm getting "better" with my InDesign/ePub workflow, I guess I'll spend a couple of hours watching the CSS training on Lynda.com.

Thanks a lot for your help and advices.

05-31-2011, 09:57 AM	#5
mtrahan Colonel Mustard Posts: 90 Karma: 1426 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Montreal Device: iPhone 6, Kindle Paperwhite 2, iPad 2	It indeed was a "funny display thing" with Sigil. I don't know exactly what "fixed" it, but text went back to normal display while I was playing with something that seemed unrelated in the CSS (an element unrelated to those I posted). I just hope that it really isn't a problem with the ePub—I would hate to see the text appears all in smallcaps on certain e-readers. That said, since JSWolf cleaned my CSS, I have a couple questions on the subject. First, I see that "line-height" attribute was removed: is it because this element isn't really used by e-readers? I was thinking of removing it but wasn't sure. I see that "font-size: normal" and "font-variant: normal" (I let that one there thinking that it could help avoid smallcaps) were removed. And the font-size of the <h1> element declared with "x-large" value instead of em: why is it better to do this? Also is there an advantage to declaring the 4 margins separately instead of all on same line? And, last question about css, why declaring the margins in pixels instead of em? Now that I'm getting "better" with my InDesign/ePub workflow, I guess I'll spend a couple of hours watching the CSS training on Lynda.com. Thanks a lot for your help and advices.