11-07-2011, 05:00 PM | #1 |
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Italics in Epub text
The text in my epub has a large number of scientific names that are normally italiczed.
I can italicize a paragraph with no problem, but can't figure out how to style just one word in a paragraph—without breaking the paragraph. Can anyone help me with way to do this? (The epub will eventually be converted to mobi for Kindle, if that makes any difference.) Thanks |
11-07-2011, 05:38 PM | #2 |
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Using the i tag:
Code:
<i>word</i> Code:
<p>some other text <span class="italic">in</span> this paragraph.</p> Code:
.italic { font-style: italic } |
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11-07-2011, 09:44 PM | #3 |
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Thanks!
I appreciate your feedback. I tried the <i> tag and when I went to Book View in Sigil I saw nothing.
So I coded the other span & css and, although a little more coding is needed, it worked fine: problem solved. Curious as to why the <i> tag did't work I redid it on another word, saved the new epub and then converted the file to a mobi file for Kindle. Both the italicized words showed up in Kindle. I'll use the short version; but do you know why it didn't show up in the Sigil Book View? Thanks for your help! |
11-07-2011, 11:54 PM | #4 |
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Occasionally with Sigil, I've had trouble with the <i></i> tags if Sigil's Tidy is turned on; if it is turned off I never have had any problems.
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11-08-2011, 04:01 AM | #5 |
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11-08-2011, 05:06 AM | #6 |
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try <em> instead of <i>
<em>This is emphasized text - which appears as italics</em> |
11-08-2011, 07:05 AM | #7 |
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... or it could be that the epub was correctly working with the <i> tag but it was not correctly rendered by Sigil: the old QTWebKit bug
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11-09-2011, 03:16 AM | #8 |
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I recently had some weirdness with this--italics would NOT render, not matter what I tried, within Sigil, in some endnotes. Showed up fine in the ePUB--but in Sigil, not a thing.
Don't know if that helps at all...but sometimes, it's the little things that turn on the lightbulbs. Hitch |
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