[AlexBell]

I feel like a lion in a den of Daniels as I venture into this forum, so please bear with me.

I am preparing a complex text book which has a lot of quotes, some of them nested, and many footnotes.

I have prepared an ePub version which I think looks good, but when I try to convert it to mobi with calibre the result looks awful. There is no indentation for the first level quotes, and the nested quotes have a wider than designed left indent and no indent at all on the right.

I have styled the footnote numbers to be small and to only rise to the top margin of the text in the ePub version. But in the mobi version the footnotes are full size and are superscripts, which means that they intrude into the line space above and force a wider line space.

Also, I have styled some blocks of text in the front matter with wider than usual margins, but in the mobi version the text sits over to the left rather than being centered.

I know that the XHTML and stylesheet validate to W3C standards, and that the ePub validates with ePubCheck.

Two questions:
- Is it possible to design a mobi ebook which has indented and nested quotes, and in which the footnote numbers are not superscripts, and in which the HTML validates?
- If so, how does one do that? I really don't think I'm going to get a good conversion through calibre.

Regards, Alex