Historical Fiction Larra, Mariano J: El doncel de don Enrique el Doliente. (Spanish) v4 10 May 2011

[Jellby]

"El doncel de don Enrique el Doliente" (The Page of Don Enrique the Sorrowful) is a historical novel set in Spain, in the 14th-15th century. It's a story of love and intrigue written by one of the most important Spanish writers of the Romanticism, Mariano José de Larra, and published in 1834.

The text is taken from the Cervantes Virtual Library, corrected and formatted. For those wanting to read this in a web browser, I include an index.zip file: just unzip this and the .epub file in the same directory, and open index.html (and modify index.css if you like).

Any kind of feedback is welcome.

EDIT (v2): Modified the drop caps code to make it work with Adobe Digital Editions (and the Sony reader).

EDIT (v3): Updated to support the epub2pdf script and pass epubcheck.

EDIT (V4): Fixed a few additional typos.

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[acidzebra]

Love the drop caps, sweet!

(I used Calibre's ebook viewer, haven't tried on the actual 505 yet but suspect it won't work)

[mtravellerh]

Originally Posted by Jellby

"El doncel de don Enrique el Doliente" (The Page of Don Enrique the Sorrowful) is a historical novel set in Spain, in the 14th-15th century. It's a story of love and intrigue written by one of the most important Spanish writers of the Romanticism, Mariano José de Larra, and published in 1834.

The text is taken from the Cervantes Virtual Library, corrected and formatted. For those wanting to read this in a web browser, I include an index.zip file: just unzip this and the .epub file in the same directory, and open index.html (and modify index.css if you like).

Any kind of feedback is welcome.

Sorry, but that drop cap thing does not really work in ADE. You DO have the drop caps, but there is a whole line of text above that cap.

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by mtravellerh

Sorry, but that drop cap thing does not really work in ADE. You DO have the drop caps, but there is a whole line of text above that cap.

Yes, I noticed in this thread. I think it is a "peculiarity" of ADE in the way it treats the line-height property (it lowers the block instead of raising it, as other engines do). But I'm reluctant to change the code until I see more ePUB readers or proof that ADE is not doing it wrong...

[mtravellerh]

Originally Posted by Jellby

Yes, I noticed in this thread. I think it is a "peculiarity" of ADE in the way it treats the line-height property (it lowers the block instead of raising it, as other engines do). But I'm reluctant to change the code until I see more ePUB readers or proof that ADE is not doing it wrong...

Yes, I have seen where the problem lies. It really is frustrating that identical code does not render identical results. Epub is rendered in so many different ways (this is the same problem for floating pictures, for example) that you have to extremely reduce your code to get a good result on all the reading platforms (and I am not even beginning to rant about FBReader)

[acidzebra]

"It really is frustrating that identical code does not render identical results"

Ha ha ha it is the "browser wars" for ebooks.

[Jellby]

After the discussion in this thread, I modified the drop caps code to make it work with Adobe Digital Editions (and the Sony reader). Uploaded v2.

[Jellby]

Fixed some typos in the text. Uploaded v4.