Thanks for the ideas. The dots don't look too bad. If only on my Mac I could copy and paste the text without loosing the spaces
not sure why that is.
I suppose I come at this from the other perspective. Both HTML and (I assume) epub formats are/were originally designed to be agnostic on the size and shape of the output device screen.
Where I have / am able to get input in a text form direct from Final Draft then I can manipulate things sufficiently to make the transition work.
Unfortunately the hard part of this process is the conversion from PDF to HTML - if it was possible in Calibre to tweak how this is performed then one could tag (with separate CSS names the various different styles) one could then manipulate the output to produce something more suitable for the display screen yet maintaining the rules for changing font sizes and rotation.
There are tools to find headers and footers on Calibre and Calibre already tags things with multiple css styles so I'm sure there must be a way to crack this.
Though I suspect finding an intermediate way from PDF to some format that can be manipulated might be the future.
For then your solution looks pretty good
and I'll try it today...
Thanks.
Alan