MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - italic and bold ok in sigil but not on Kobo reader

shall1028 · 07-01-2011, 03:09 AM

As you have not posted the epub file for us to have a look at (a very common occurrence with these sorts of questions) I am going to have to attempt to divine the solution blind.

I believe I know what is wrong! Go into your kitchen and unplug your toaster or blender or both if you have both. There is obviously radio frequency interference with those appliances.

On the other hand you could get rid of all those some text entries and replace them with some text or some text if you like. Then check your CSS and remove font-style: italic; from the I or EM definitions.

SPAN and DIV have their uses but why use them to replace I or EM (or B or STRONG for that matter)? Of course, Calibre not using for bog standard paragraphs is silly too.

07-01-2011, 03:09 AM	#6
shall1028 Nameless Being	As you have not posted the epub file for us to have a look at (a very common occurrence with these sorts of questions) I am going to have to attempt to divine the solution blind. I believe I know what is wrong! Go into your kitchen and unplug your toaster or blender or both if you have both. There is obviously radio frequency interference with those appliances. On the other hand you could get rid of all those <span class="italic">some text</span> entries and replace them with <i>some text</i> or <em>some text</em> if you like. Then check your CSS and remove font-style: italic; from the I or EM definitions. SPAN and DIV have their uses but why use them to replace I or EM (or B or STRONG for that matter)? Of course, Calibre not using <p> for bog standard paragraphs is silly too.