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Originally Posted by seanos
Thanks for the enlightenment guys! (still wasn't getting notifications since there seems to be another thread-level choice that was turned off).
It's mystifying that Adobe would choose to create another Microsoft-style monopoly-driven standards failure, but I suppose there's not much to be done about it. HTML/CSS is so standard and prevalent these days it really makes no sense to support only a random subset.
I had already tried faking small caps (font-size: 80%; text-transform: uppercase  , so I could easily just change styles. Don't suppose anyone's come up with a hacky way of detecting ADE like the old IE hacks?
I was also relying on percentage widths for <hr/> too; I wonder if it can be hacked around with <div>s. Time to download ADE I suppose. |
@seanos:
I have to add to this, even though I'm not sure it's directly relevant to your topic, that we've had some real
doozy issues with Nook and smallcaps. Now, primarily, we tried, with a very difficult client who could NOT get past it, to do a Raised Initial + smallcap header for chapter and sub-chapter heads, so that the Raised Initial would rise a bit above the small caps.
It never worked, primarily due to B&N's screwing around with the bloody hyphenation. We could get the Raised Initial + smallcaps--but the header would break oddly (in Nook, if you don't overtly turn hyphenation off, it simply hyphenates wherever it runs out of space--NOT at a syllable). If we turned hyphenation off, it would vertically align the whole header. If we left it on, (hyphenation), we'd get bizarro-world hyphens. Due to having two spans inside the header, we could never,
ever get it to work.
I don't know if there's been an update since, but that one nearly pushed me over the edge; we must have tried, I kid thee not, 24-25 variants to get it to emulate SOMEHOW...and it never would. I even reached out to Josh at EBA;
nada. We tried "real" smallcaps; we tried text-variants; we tried text-size...you name it. We tried it ALL.
So: I'd highly recommend that you download ADE, and if you don't have a Nook, DL their dreadful reading app, Nook for PC. It is far from perfect, but it renders the ePUBs
relatively faithfully to what the Nook device will do, and trust me when I tell you, weird stuff happens. As everyone here will tell you, don't even get me
STARTED on iBooks' app...just wait until you start playing with that!
Hope this helps, or at least saves someone from pulling their hair out,
Hitch