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Old 05-07-2013, 10:54 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by Barty View Post
I have no problem with choice. But, from the first post, kepub looks broken where ePub displays correctly. How is this good? Improper scene break is a pet peeve of mine.
The "scene break" will depend on how the ebook publisher (not Kobo in most cases) created that piece of code. I've seen multiple ways of doing a blank line and some of them do not work on different devices. Some of them work for Adobe's Reader Mobile (epub) but not for ACCESS Netfront (kepub). Some of the more popular ways of inserting a blank line I've seen follow:


<p class="foobar">&nbsp;</p> works quite well unless you are reading on an iDevice which seems to disbelieve in non-breaking spaces.

<p class="foobar" /> which works on the occasional reader. Most of the time it does not work but seems to be popular with many publishers.

<br /> is another that works once in a while. Not something I would depend on across multiple devices but

<p class="foobar"><br /></p> is another which works quite well in most cases. Sigil uses this when you insert a blank line.

Then there are the ebooks where the paragraph before the blank line uses a css style with a larger bottom margin or the paragraph after the blank line used a larger top margin.

If the ebook is not DRMed, I find myself breaking out Sigil and having fun hacking and slashing the styles, corrected the incorrect line breaks that amost every ebook seems to have, etc.

Regards,
David

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