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Rizphil 02-12-2012 05:18 PM
Formatting in Sigil
 
Greetings all.
I'm trying my hand at writing my own ebook using Sigil, however I'm having trouble formatting it the way I'd like. Specifically, I do not want any spacing between paragraphs, and after the first paragraph, I would like an indent just like you see in a paperback book. Every time I begin an new paragraph, Sigil creates a blank line and the new paragraph is once again left aligned.
I've opened other Sigil ebooks which are formatted the way I want mine to look, and cut and pasted some of the code in the code view to my book, but still no luck.

Any suggestions?


Thanks

DiapDealer 02-12-2012 05:25 PM
Brush up on CSS. You're seeing the default style for paragraphs.

mmat1 02-13-2012 02:34 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rizphil (Post 1963193)
Specifically, I do not want any spacing between paragraphs, and after the first paragraph, I would like an indent just like you see in a paperback book. Thanks
Put the following code in the <head> section of you html-file:

<style type="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[*/
p { margin: 0 0; text-indent: 1em; text-align: justify; }
/*]]>*/
</style>

Every paragraph (including the first one) will use this. It will have a small indent and there will be no space between paragraphs.

Did this get you a bit closer to the formatting you want ?

Keroberos 02-13-2012 05:31 PM
A good place to check out for learning CSS is the w3school site.

Toxaris 02-14-2012 03:39 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by mmat1 (Post 1964222)
Put the following code in the <head> section of you html-file:

<style type="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[*/
p { margin: 0 0; text-indent: 1em; text-align: justify; }
/*]]>*/
</style>

Every paragraph (including the first one) will use this. It will have a small indent and there will be no space between paragraphs.

Did this get you a bit closer to the formatting you want ?
Although fine in general, I would really recommend not doing this in an internal stylesheet, but rather a external. It makes formatting a lot more predictable and repeatable. It also saves size and makes it easier maintainable.


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