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Old 04-13-2011, 12:20 AM   #4
fewilcox
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There is an issue with Ozma of Oz in Chapter 4, "Tiktok the Machine Man": the two sections that detail the contents of Tiktok's instructions are each a single non-breaking line that is roughly three times the size of the page when viewed in Calibre's E-book Viewer. It comes out so wide on my PRS-505 that I thought the text was missing until I viewed it in Calibre.

Here are the two sections:
Quote:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | SMITH & TINKER'S | | Patent Double-Action, Extra-Responsive, | | Thought-Creating, Perfect-Talking | | MECHANICAL MAN | | Fitted with our Special Clock-Work Attachment. | | Thinks, Speaks, Acts, and Does Everything but Live. | | Manufactured only at our Works at Evna, Land of Ev. | | All infringements will be promptly Prosecuted according to Law. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
Quote:
+--------------------------------------------------+ | | | DIRECTIONS FOR USING: | | For THINKING:--Wind the Clock-work Man under his | | left arm, (marked No. 1.) | | For SPEAKING:--Wind the Clock-work Man under his | | right arm, (marked No. 2.) | | For WALKING and ACTION:--Wind Clock-work in the | | middle of his back, (marked No. 3.) | | N. B.--This Mechanism is guaranteed to work | | perfectly for a thousand years. | | | +--------------------------------------------------+
With any luck, I'll be picking up a copy of Ozma of Oz from the library tomorrow afternoon and can see how it's supposed to be formatted but I presume that they're supposed to look like cards.

It's quite easy in a forum, but I have no idea how to force this in an epub:
Code:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                 |
|                         SMITH & TINKER'S                        |
|             Patent Double-Action, Extra-Responsive,             |
|                Thought-Creating, Perfect-Talking                |
|                         MECHANICAL MAN                          |
|          Fitted with our Special Clock-Work Attachment.         |
|       Thinks, Speaks, Acts, and Does Everything but Live.       |
|       Manufactured only at our Works at Evna, Land of Ev.       |
| All infringements will be promptly Prosecuted according to Law. |
|                                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
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Originally Posted by jhempel24 View Post
Very cool, does this have the illustrations in it? And if not, do you know where I could find the illustrations and add them?
No it doesn't but I too would like to see them.

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