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Old 11-17-2011, 12:05 PM   #10
andyd273
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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan View Post
If you use "padding-left:x" and "text-indent: -x", it would work as you want in ePub and mobi (at least in all the ereaders I have tried it).
Only really concerned with Kindle, Nook and iBooks at the moment. So good to hear.
Off to try this.

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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
So "text-indent" is translated to the "width" property:
Code:
<p width="1.0em">blah, blah, blah</p>
by calibre's or kindlegen's conversion process.
Useful information. And I always seem to forget about em measurements. That'll be useful for ebooks since the font is so likely to be re-sized.
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