How to suppress headings?

[theducks]

the whole book does not need to use a style sheet. You can edge in.


As to importing ' A style sheet':
Unless the 'Imported' sheet is designed to work on a tag level (sets a basic style), you are wasting effort.

So in you example, you could start with a 'New Stylesheet'
add the ONE selector:

.hideheader {text-align: center; display: none;}

Select ALL the HTML files you want to use this style in the Book Browser:
right-click: Link stylesheet: tick the box for the stylesheet: OK

Using Search and Replace: replace all the

style="text-align: center;"

with

class="hideheader"

Then slowly shift other styling over to the stylesheet..
Note: that if you move a style defined in the head of a document, be sure to remove it from there as it can override the stylesheet.

[wkuiper]

I do appreciate your incentives to go professional, but right now I have not got the time nor the support to enter that adventure. I have asked my ICT-colleages both at the university and the academy if they are interested in creating e-books. They have no capacity to help me or are sceptical about 'scientific' texts for an e-reader. So I am on my own. At this moment I am satisfied with what I can create: plain text without pictures and notes. When I publish my first e-book at 5 december [Sinterklaas-feest in The Netherlands] I hope find another e-book creator and maybe the two or more of us can work out a stylesheet.

Yours,

Willem

[theducks]

Professional?

I am a retired swab jockey (was in the 'Black shoe' Navy).
I learned electronics in the vacuum tube era. Started using computers that loaded from paper tape.
I do this for fun (and to make the horrible formatting I see, pleasant for me to read.)


From your description, a One Size Fits All Stylesheet is not what you want for a TEXTBOOK. (Dr. Knuth wrote TeX for this reason).

OSFA might work for a novel. You have specific requirements.

Ask a Computer science (web page designer) for help.
Ebooks are closer to HTML 3.2 (which Mobi is based upon). No fancy Java needed (or wanted).

[wkuiper]

When I started working with computers in 1975 I had to punch holes in a card and feed these cards to 64 kb monster.
When I bought my first PC in 1986 I did not know how to operate it. But I learned.
When I started using WordPerfect I was lucky to find a good book that helped me to master the program.
Yet modern WordPerfect is so complex that I do not know how to write macro's. And there is nobody I know that uses WordPerfect.
I have tried OS2 and Linux but right now I am using XP Pro. It is good enough for me.
I am not afraid to learn new things such as creating a stylesheet, but my time is precious. There is a lot that must be finished first.
That is why I think that is not sound to invent a wheel while I am not sure that I really have to use it.
This e-book is an experiment.
E-books are not so populair in The Netherlands.

[Toxaris]

With respect, I disagree. E-Books are populair in the Netherlands. There are a lot of people making e-books and almost all new books can be bought as an e-book.
Just as with the english books, the 'amateurs' usually make a better product... If you want, I can help you in dutch. I wrote several easy entry-level guides in dutch.

[wkuiper]

Not in my branche, Toxaris.

http://nederl.blogspot.nl/2011/09/co...teit-werd.html

In my opinion an e-book is better than a pocketbook. Much better! Yet it has its limitations. Maybe that is why there are no 'scholarly' Dutch e-books.
With my e-book experiment, editing a late medieval romance that was printed in 1564 in Antwerp and never published since then, I want to explore the possibilities.
I do appreciate your help: writing a stylesheet if that creates a better e-book than I am creating now.
Please send me a private message in Dutch for details.

Yours,

Willem