First Line Indent on iPhone Kindle, not Kindle Fire

[msmith65]

I've used the Kindle Previewer to make a .mobi file for view on an actual Kindle Fire. It looks just right.

When I put the same .mobi file on an iPhone, the first line of each paragraph is indented - I don't want that.

The headings come out fine on iPhone. Just the paragraphs have the first-line indents.

Any thoughts? Here's my stylesheet minus the metadata up top:

h {font-family:"Bookman Old Style";margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: .3em; page-break-before:never; }

h1.style1 {font-family:"Bookman Old Style";text-align:left;color:rgb(50, 158, 255);page-break-before:always;}
h2.style1 {font-family:"Bookman Old Style";text-align:left;color:rgb(50, 158, 255);page-break-before:always;}
h3.style1 {font-family:"Bookman Old Style";text-align:left;color:rgb(50, 158, 255);}
h3.sigilNotInTOC {font-family:"Bookman Old Style";text-align:left;color:rgb(50, 158, 255);}
hr.style1 {text-align:center;color:rgb(300, 300, 300)}
h4.style1 {font-family:"Bookman Old Style";text-align:center;page-break-before:always;}




p {margin-bottom: .6em; margin-top: .6em }
.style1 {
font-family:"Bookman Old Style"; text-align:left; height="120"; text-indent: 0em;}

.style2 {
font-family:"Bookman Old Style"; text-align:center; height="120"; text-indent: 0em;page-break-before:always;}

.style3 {
font-family:"Bookman Old Style"; text-align:left; height="120"; margin-left:2em; margin right:2em; font-style: italic;}

[DiapDealer]

You're really not asking Sigil questions here.

[msmith65]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

You're really not asking Sigil questions here.

I edited the file as a .epub in Sigil.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by msmith65

I edited the file as a .epub in Sigil.

If it Passes Flightcrew and renders fine in Sigil or Calibre, it is a device problem.
I-phones and others don't do Sigil level EPUB well.

[Toxaris]

Which is actually an Apple issue and not a Sigil issue. Sigil delivers valid coding.

Btw, the text-align: center for your hr tag will not work.

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

Btw, the text-align: center for your hr tag will not work.

... because "text-align" refers to the alignment of (inline-level) content inside the element, not to the positioning of the element itself, which is controlled only with margins.

[Toxaris]

Correct, if you need to center a horizontal line, make the left and right margin of that line equal.

[mrmikel]

But it really should not be that complicated.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by mrmikel

But it really should not be that complicated.

Those are the facts.
Forget should.
That is the work-around for ADE (and there are others needed)
other, so called EPUB's are worse in their quirks

[Jellby]

p {margin-bottom: .6em; margin-top: .6em; text-indent: 0 }

try that.

[msmith65]

Originally Posted by Jellby

p {margin-bottom: .6em; margin-top: .6em; text-indent: 0 }

try that.

This lowered the amount of first-line indent in iPhone, but did not eliminate it.

Thank you for the idea.

[msmith65]

I kludged a workaround by a) placing a <br /> right after the <p> tag in the first line of every paragraph I did NOT want indented, and b) lowering the space between paragraphs.

Good, but there's still a lot of air between pargraphs. The client likes it.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by theducks

If it Passes Flightcrew and renders fine in Sigil or Calibre, it is a device problem.
I-phones and others don't do Sigil level EPUB well.

It should render fine in ADE. You should not use Sigil or FC as a final testbed.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by msmith65

Any thoughts?

I have a possible solution. Don't use iBooks. Install Bluefire Reader and use Blufire instead of iBooks.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by msmith65

I kludged a workaround by a) placing a <br /> right after the <p> tag in the first line of every paragraph I did NOT want indented, and b) lowering the space between paragraphs.

Good, but there's still a lot of air between pargraphs. The client likes it.

The client likes it? Why? Also, if you are going to get paid to produce an eBook, make it look good and make the code underneath look good as well. All you are doing is using poor code and cheating the client. You don't kludge something together that you are getting paid to do. You do it correctly with CSS and proper coding..

Why is it publishers are giving the job of making eBooks to people who have no clue? This does explain a lot about why we have poor formatting and many errors.