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Old 12-20-2010, 04:32 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by soulartist View Post
I added your suggestion this way, but no effect.

}
p.index-level-2 {
font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
font-size: 0.75em;
line-height: 1.20em;
text-decoration: none;
font-variant: normal;
text-indent: -1.33em;
text-align: left;
color: #000000;
margin: 0em 0em 0em 1.33em;
oeb-column-number: 3;
}
Well, as far as I can see that is the proper way to define columns in ePUB, but it's up to the reading software to support them or not, and most probably none does.

But do you really, really, really want multiple columns[*]? Note that in a portable reader the screen width / font size is often such that one column fills the screen already. I would leave the index in a single running column, and maybe add links to the different initial letters to make navigation simpler.

[*] If you do, ADE has some extension that could allow them. There was a document where Adobe explained how it works, but it seems to be offline. If you search for xpgt and page templates you could find something. It is not spec-compliant and only works (if it does) with Adobe-based readers.
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