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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
May I ask what you are using in your book that only works in iBooks?
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16th century typography -- I kid ye not.
Here, I'll include a screen shot -- see the attachment here -- of one of my pages (actually two pages, of course), as it looks in iBooks. I'm using a digitized period font, of course, to pull this off, embedded in the epub, that has tons of ligatures and stuff, both in roman and italic.
And just to show you how screwy the coding is for this, here's the HTML for the selection of text that you see in that screenshot...
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<p class="olde"><span class="dropcap drop1"><img alt="I" src="../Images/init-t.png" /></span>hou <span style="white-space: nowrap">appere¥</span> in my thouwts <span style="white-space: nowrap">ƒo</span> <span style="white-space: nowrap">o¤en</span> of lait and I can nowth healpe bwt thynke hauw vniqwe thou hauef becom, hauw <i>eccepcionall</i> ytt <span style="white-space: nowrap">ha¥</span> aull bine in gyttynge to kno thee. Thou art <span style="white-space: nowrap">ƒempylly</span> that rayre kynde of parrƒen oan ƒild metes in a lyfetyme, that <span style="white-space: nowrap">ƒwmme</span> newyr mete; they <span style="white-space: nowrap">reƒpeck,</span> they <span style="white-space: nowrap">fornneƒs</span> and warmthe that I feel ƒeem to hauef becom ane <span style="white-space: nowrap">a¤eccion</span> of <span style="white-space: nowrap">my¥ickal</span> proporcions, whythe a deppyt that reches to they vary coore and brethe of my Sawle. For they <span style="white-space: nowrap">for¥</span> tyme in my lyfe I no longar nide to tallk of whot hys <span style="white-space: nowrap">poƒcibell,</span> of whot <i>coold</i> by, for whythe thee euere thouwt that entres my mynd as I penne <span style="white-space: nowrap">thoƒe</span> wordes hys a ƒoung of pres, a celibracion and a <span style="white-space: nowrap">thannkeƒgeuyn</span> for whot <span style="white-space: nowrap">ƒempylly</span> <i>hys,</i> for whot whe aulredy do <span style="white-space: nowrap">¬ar</span> <span style="white-space: nowrap">ƒo</span> ioyefolly betwhene ws.</p>
What it would appear doesn't seem to work in ADE is the "nowrap" style -- despite my having that in there, whenever it hits one of those special characters (like ƒ or ¥, etc.), if the word happens to be at the end of the line and
can "break", it
will, and it won't do so with a hyphen, so there's no indication to the reader (and it's hard enough for the average reader to read as it is, of course) that those two "parts" actually belong together.
I'm not sure -- I haven't done extensive testing on it -- but I
think my ebook might be okay in ADE apart from that, but that's definitely a
big bug for me. If you have any ideas on how to overcome that, I would certainly be most grateful!
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Pretty much every dedicated ereader that is not Kindle or iBooks.
This is an immense share of the market.
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Oh, okay. I'm still
very new to all this epublishing stuff, so I have a great deal to learn yet.
One thing at a time -- and since I only have access to an iPad and a Mac (although I'm actually a PC guy, which is what I do all my work on) that's all I can test things on.
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Yes... Apple MIGHT be 20% of the ebook market share (if being very generous).
I know somewhere in the forums, Hitch gave an estimates on sales from her companies' conversions in iBooks, and they were PALTRY (<5% of the sales occured through iBooks, could have been closer to 1% if I recall correctly).
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All those figures you mentioned are pretty much what I've heard, too (i.e. from 20% down to 5% or even less). I know iBooks isn't much, but for the moment -- for this, my first project, anyway (with all that "olde" text) -- it's what I'm concentrating on.
I could do that whole section of my book up as graphics, of course, but it's just not the same as having it in reflowable text -- that's what is half of the "art" behind it, pulling off that 16th century typography in that way.