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Forum: ePub 06-19-2020, 09:43 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 2,982
Posted By Chaihana Joe
Ah, thanks. I was using a bookmark I made...

Ah, thanks.

I was using a bookmark I made which went to http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/
Forum: ePub 06-19-2020, 05:48 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 2,982
Posted By Chaihana Joe
Liz Castro

I went to look up something I remember reading in Liz Castro's Pigs, Gourds and Wikis and the site has been taken over by some Malaysian(?) stuff. What's heppened?
Forum: Sigil 12-09-2019, 04:20 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 671
Posted By Chaihana Joe
OK, well the problem happened twice before I...

OK, well the problem happened twice before I posted this, but since then I haven't been able to recreate it. I've done a Search and Replace to remove all the empty paragraphs and that seems to have...
Forum: Sigil 12-09-2019, 04:05 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 671
Posted By Chaihana Joe
I'm using 0.9.13 (with Book View). I like the...

I'm using 0.9.13 (with Book View). I like the BookView and was planning on not upgrading to a version that doesn't include it.
Forum: Sigil 12-09-2019, 04:00 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 671
Posted By Chaihana Joe
Sigil adding unwanted tags on Save

I'm using Sigil for the first time and have run into a problem.

My book has sixty-odd chapters and I would like them all to start like this:

<body>
<p class="chapter-number">Chapter IV</p>...
Forum: ePub 12-03-2018, 04:37 PM
Replies: 64
Views: 5,912
Posted By Chaihana Joe
Exactly what I was after. Thank you, NJ.

Exactly what I was after. Thank you, NJ.
Forum: ePub 12-01-2018, 03:08 PM
Replies: 64
Views: 5,912
Posted By Chaihana Joe
Very useful, thank you. I haven't been seeing...

Very useful, thank you. I haven't been seeing wiki.mobileread. pages coming up in my Google searches.
Forum: ePub 12-01-2018, 12:51 PM
Replies: 64
Views: 5,912
Posted By Chaihana Joe
Skeleton CSS

One would think that, somewhere out there, somebody would have posted an elegant barebones ePub CSS file for novice book designers to base their work on. Try as I might, though, I haven't been able...
Forum: Sigil 10-28-2013, 02:16 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 10,633
Posted By Chaihana Joe
Awesome, thanks - I had totally missed that news....

Awesome, thanks - I had totally missed that news. I guess it will only come to touch-enabled devices. Shame though - it can be pretty tortuous using footnotes on the basic Kindle and anything that...
Forum: Sigil 10-28-2013, 11:32 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 10,633
Posted By Chaihana Joe
As you say, Tex2002ans, Liz Castro has given us a...

As you say, Tex2002ans, Liz Castro has given us a nice blog of the <aside> tag being used to give lovely pop-ups in ePub3 on iBooks, but I haven't yet seen anything about equivalent functionality on...
Forum: Workshop 04-14-2013, 12:05 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 3,176
Posted By Chaihana Joe
Subsequent to the above, I thought it would be...

Subsequent to the above, I thought it would be instructive to reverse engineer the Kindle X-Ray functionality, to see whether I could get what I wanted in a similar way. However, in attempting to do...
Forum: Workshop 03-30-2013, 07:31 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 3,176
Posted By Chaihana Joe
Toxaris and mncowboy, thanks for your help. ...

Toxaris and mncowboy, thanks for your help.

I can see now that titling this thread 'Creating an Index' was misleading. My original post describes the use case exactly, but I fell into the trap of...
Forum: Workshop 03-30-2013, 07:24 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 3,176
Posted By Chaihana Joe
Ok, I've found this method...

Ok, I've found this method (http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/2012/05/creating-pop-up-footnotes-in-epub-3-and.html) by Liz Castro which does pretty much exactly what I described upthread.

She is...
Forum: Workshop 03-28-2013, 08:28 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 3,176
Posted By Chaihana Joe
Thanks for the pointer, Toxaris. It looks like...

Thanks for the pointer, Toxaris. It looks like that can work well in ePub 3's, probably using Links and IDs. I'm a little less confident as to how that will translate across to Kindle, but I'll give...
Forum: Workshop 03-28-2013, 01:43 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 3,176
Posted By Chaihana Joe
Creating Pop-up Notes and Links (was Creating an index)

I have started work on creating a new version of an old book (a very old book), of about 500 pages. The book is historical and has hundreds of names of people and places. It is my intention to...
Forum: Calibre 01-28-2012, 06:37 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,433
Posted By Chaihana Joe
Brilliant! Wasn't sure what you meant by the...

Brilliant! Wasn't sure what you meant by the 'Metadata editor formats area' but guessed and it worked. Hard to see any better way of describing it though - there's no label on that box.

You've...
Forum: Calibre 01-28-2012, 05:43 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,433
Posted By Chaihana Joe
Persisting html-to-epub workflow

I'm new to Calibre, new to authoring in fact. I want to push the book I'm writing through Calibre to convert from HTML to ePub on a frequent basis and I want to be able to have the metadata and...
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