With Jellby's kind help I've been able to get my handmade ePub documents to show the cover in the bookshelf, and to open at the cover, and I've also learned how to centre paragraphs where necessary.
But I have found two more anomalies and would like some help.
- When I go to the TOC the cover is not shown as an option, even though it shows in the same file on my Sony - that is, the TOC on the iPad starts at the option below what is the first one in the toc.ncx file.
- I'm doing a book which has text on the title page and an image below that. The markup is
<div class="centre" style="margin-top: 40px;">
<img src="images/greenman.png" alt="Green man" width="40%" />
</div>
which works perfectly well on my Sony and validates to W3C standards. But on my iPad the image takes up the full width of the screen - apart from the iPad/iBooks imposed wide margins. I use the same markup on another section of the ebook to show an image at 30% width, and very similar markup in a different ebook to float an image to one side of the screen and have the text flow around it. Both these examples work as well on the iPad/iBooks as they do on the Sony/ADE.
I've tried several solutions, like putting the markup in the CSS, putting a div around the div shown above, and so on. They work and validate on my Sony, but don't work in the iPad.
Can anyone help please, or point me to a source which discusses anomalies in iBooks?