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Dingbats in formats that Calibre supports
This isn't really a Calibre question so much as a cross-format question, but you guys are smart so I thought I'd ask here:
Someone is preparing one of my books right now, and I have special dialogue marks to indicate quotations spoken by implants. In the print version, which I liked, small square boxes were used as dingbats in place of regular quote marks. Is it possible to replicate that, without a ridiculous amount of special handling, in ebook format? (Meaning, something that could, without too much work, flow into all the major formats--perhaps starting from an html file.) I know Word dingbats are problematic. How about a small gif or other image? Or is that just asking for trouble? Suggestions? Thanks. |
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"the right way" to do this would be to use one of the named entites from http://www.elizabethcastro.com/html/.../entities.html
However, the fonts used to display the book on the device may not have support for all of them, so the safest way would be to use a small image. |
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I'll probably use an entity and hope. |
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Fortunately, in this case no meaningful information was lost to the reader. But in another case, if might be. |
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In this case, it was an uninterrupted string of characters, essentially a word too long for the line. I guess the software guys will have to answer the question of why epub didn't break the "word" at the right margin.
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My guess is that DE takes it as a single word since it has no spaces. Last edited by JSWolf; 03-01-2009 at 10:38 PM. |
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My fault. I cheated on the formatting and used CSS 'white-space: pre' (e.g., a <pre/> element). Better would be to have each line be a wrappable block-level element with a proper left margin.
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