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cybmole · 05-01-2011, 12:10 PM

i noice that when I add line space via sigil book view

e.g. I change from

line 1 followed by
line 2

so that I see

line 1 followed by

line 2

then sigil does this by adding code like
 

where the class is whatever is in use on other paragraphs.

This "works" i.e. looks good in sigil book view, & also looks good in calibre epub viewer, but when I send to my Sony 650, the line spaces are not visible .i.e. the Sony apparently completely ignores lines like 

IS the epub spec ambiguous, or is Sony e-reader software out of lien with rest of world ?

PS I Know that I am supposed to use proper styles & not lazy tags, but if I am in book view and want to separate blocks of text , e.g. to put extra space around a quote or a subheading, it would be good to be able to just hit ENTER & get consistent results on all devices.

I have had to resort to explicity hitting space bar a couple of times, not just hitting enter, to get results I want.

is especially annoying with sigil's indent feature,which adds blockquote tags, as Sony seems to also ignore any blockquote styling & shows the indented text with zero top & bottom margin - stripping any lines.

05-01-2011, 12:10 PM	#1
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	different epub interpretations of <br> ? i noice that when I add line space via sigil book view e.g. I change from line 1 followed by line 2 so that I see line 1 followed by line 2 then sigil does this by adding code like <p class="whatever"><br /></p> where the class is whatever is in use on other paragraphs. This "works" i.e. looks good in sigil book view, & also looks good in calibre epub viewer, but when I send to my Sony 650, the line spaces are not visible .i.e. the Sony apparently completely ignores lines like <p class="whatever"><br /></p> IS the epub spec ambiguous, or is Sony e-reader software out of lien with rest of world ? PS I Know that I am supposed to use proper styles & not lazy <br /> tags, but if I am in book view and want to separate blocks of text , e.g. to put extra space around a quote or a subheading, it would be good to be able to just hit ENTER & get consistent results on all devices. I have had to resort to explicity hitting space bar a couple of times, not just hitting enter, to get results I want. is especially annoying with sigil's indent feature,which adds blockquote tags, as Sony seems to also ignore any blockquote styling & shows the indented text with zero top & bottom margin - stripping any <br> lines. Last edited by cybmole; 05-01-2011 at 12:14 PM.