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Originally Posted by ficbot
If I can use special formatting on these before I convert them to set off the text as a blockquote, will they stay formatted as I want to once Calibre adds the indents? Or should I convert them as I have been, then go back and edit the quote parts after, as a blockquote or centred line or something? What is the best practice for this sort of thing?
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I would recommend learning some CSS, and formating with something like:
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<h1>Chapter 4</h1>
<div class="epigraph">
<div class="line">’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves</div>
<div class="line">Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:</div>
<div class="line">All mimsy were the borogoves,</div>
<div class="line">And the mome raths outgrabe.</div>
</div>
<p>After three whole chapters of adventures, the fourth chapter starts here...</p>
One could be less verbose in the epigraph coding too. The CSS will make sure the epigraph's alignment and margins are correct, and the poem lines are formatted accordingly. Have a look at
this thread for some ideas.
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Finally, not related to the above question, but I am wondering if its okay to share the books here. The website posts books which are all in the public domain, so technically the text of free for grabs. And I am doing my own formatting and tweaking of it. But the site's editor did take original page scans, clean them up and put in her own work on them. So should I just keep them for personal use, or given that the texts are public domain, is it ok to share them?
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If the author (and translator, and illustrator, etc.) died more than 70 years ago, it's OK to post it here. But if there is extra content (commentaries, notes, etc.) you should consider this content's author too. In any case, it's of course good manners to at least acknowledge the source of your text.