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Hello all
I now have a booklet which has formatted in a consistent manner! It was a bit of a long winded process but this is what I did, in case it helps anyone else:
I started out with a Word document, into which I put all the poems. Apart from one poem, I was lucky enough to track them all down on the web. I kept line indents as per the originals. Individual lines were indented with spaces, rather than tabs.
I then saved the document as a text file and put it into Dreamweaver. I added CSS to format the paragraphs (lines) and the titles, and added the HTML. The titles were set to <h2> to trigger page breaks. I used <br /> to separate stanzas and between the title/poem and poem/author. After putting the HTML file into Calibre I converted to ePub first; I changed some of the conversion settings as follows:
In 'look & feel' I set minimum line height to 0%, checked 'remove spacing.....' and unchecked 'insert blank line....'
Then I converted the pub file to mobi.
I had wanted the author name to be indented to partway across the page, and I set this up in CSS. It worked in ePub but in mobi the names are left justified (which is my default justification). I'll go back at some point and change that by inserting spaces.
Thanks very much to everyone for their input.
ren
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