How to keep certain lines together?

[Ripplinger]

There's no performance issues at all with 30 html pages in the epub, and I was trying to avoid all the blank space that would come before each numbered section within a chapter. For me it also just makes editing the book more tedious when there's 100 files, especially when 30 would do. It's not a huge book, just a typical 300 page novel.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

There's no performance issues at all with 30 html pages in the epub, and I was trying to avoid all the blank space that would come before each numbered section within a chapter. For me it also just makes editing the book more tedious when there's 100 files, especially when 30 would do. It's not a huge book, just a typical 300 page novel.

If the XML are not larger then the mobile ADE specification specifies, then go for it. If not, don't go for it.

[AlexBell]

Here is the CSS I use for poetry - each verse goes in its own div

div.verse {
margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1em;
padding: 0;
page-break-inside:avoid;
} /* Sets top margin and and prevents verses breaking */
div.verse p { text-indent: -2em;
margin-left: 2em;
text-align: left;
margin-bottom: 0;
padding: 0; } /* Aligns text left, indents lines after break */
div.verse+p { text-indent:0; }

I know it works because I sometimes have to disable the 'page-break-inside:avoid' if verses are too long.

I hope this helps, and if there is any way of doing it better please let me know.

[mrmikel]

Remember all bets are off when someone pushes the size button...your half page can become two!

[Ripplinger]

Originally Posted by AlexBell

Here is the CSS I use for poetry - each verse goes in its own div

div.verse {
margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1em;
padding: 0;
page-break-inside:avoid;
} /* Sets top margin and and prevents verses breaking */
div.verse p { text-indent: -2em;
margin-left: 2em;
text-align: left;
margin-bottom: 0;
padding: 0; } /* Aligns text left, indents lines after break */
div.verse+p { text-indent:0; }

I know it works because I sometimes have to disable the 'page-break-inside:avoid' if verses are too long.

I hope this helps, and if there is any way of doing it better please let me know.

I was thinking about using a div class too earlier but then forgot about it. But I just tried a simplified version of this now and it works perfectly on both my Sony 350s and Kobo Glos.

In the stylesheet I added:

div.sectionstart {
page-break-inside:avoid;
}

And around the section number and first paragraph only I used:

<div class="sectionstart"> (with </div> right after the first paragraph).

And it avoided the section numbers from ever dangling by their lonesome on a preceding page. (And now a few of us know how the "page-break-inside" is meant to work. )

I was afraid of what might happen if someone enlarged the text enough so the first paragraph wouldn't fit on one page with the section number, and that wasn't a problem either. The paragraph just continued onto the following page like I would hope.

So I'm pretty happy with this solution. If there's enough room on a page with the previous section, it will continue on that same page, so there's a minimum of blank space between the sections like I wanted without resorting to 100 html pages within the epub.

Thanks all for the help with this.

Edit: But now this makes me wonder why does using "avoid" work with page-break-inside, but not with page-break-before or page-break-after? Just curiosity at this point, like I said, I'm happy with this result. Possibly the difference is that it works when used with <div>?