Jackie - thanks for the very kind offer - if it is OK I will PM the details to you as there are (as often the way copyright issues). I have been playing this afternoon and seem to have got some of the way to create something that I think almost does the job. Just about to read my results but the CSS so far is:
Code:
body {
font-family: "Courier
New", Monospace;
}
p.action {
text-align: left;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
}
p.character {
text-align: left;
margin-left: 50%;
margin-right: 10px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-top: 8px;
}
p.dialog {
text-align: left;
margin-left: 20%;
margin-right: 30px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
p.sceneheading {
text-align: left;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
p.sceneheading:before {
margin-bottom: -16px ! important;
}
p.sceneheading:after {
margin-top: -16px ! important;
}
p.transition {
text-align: right;
text-transform: uppercase;
margin-right: 15px;
}
p.parenthetical {
text-align: left;
margin-left: 23%;
margin-right: 20px;
}
I have no idea if some of these have any effect on Calibre and the Kindle but I think things are moving in the right way. I suspect my issue was playing with other peoples CSS examples aimed at web browsers and the CSS that calibre converts and can use for Kindle and other epub readers is a limited subset
Anyway thanks for all the feedback and maybe this thread will help others in the future
Alan