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Originally Posted by Psymon
Rubén! Rubén! Rubén! I need your help again! I hope you work on weekends (ha ha)!  |
No, I don't work on weekends
But in this forum there are many people that are able to help you (Doitsu, Hitch, Jellby, SBT, etc., they know a lot about this stuff –much more than me–).
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Okay! I've been working on getting my first epub (which is already up for sale on the iBooks store) converted so that it will also work in Kindle, and I just wanted to confirm something re the above, and also ask a "how-to" question...
Firstly, I think you already answered this, but the stylesheet that I've been using for iBooks/ADE should work fine for KF8 -- correct? So I don't need to make any changes/additions to that?
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That's correct (at least, I think so).
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Assuming that's right, then the only thing I need to do up now is separate styles for mobi. As you described above, these would be done in the same stylesheet, but I seem to recall a way of detecting a device and then importing an entirely separate stylesheet, i.e. can I do something like this, and just put this in my main (iBooks/ADE) stylesheet?...
@media amzn-mobi {
@import url("../Styles/mobi.css");
}
This would greatly simplify designing that stylesheet, actually. In Sigil, I could very easily do a search & replace for the stylesheet references in all my HTML files and change them to point to that mobi.css, then design the latter how I want it to look -- all the while that I can actually "see" how it will look right there in Sigil -- and then when I'm done I just do a search and replace and change it back again.
I presume that makes sense?
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I recommend you to read the Kindle Publishing Guidelines, section 8.3. There you'll find all the methods to submit a media query that Kindle can understand. You can use the @import sintaxis, but in that case maybe should be better to write:
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@import url("../Styles/mobi.css") amzn-mobi;
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One other question, on a different subject... in my iBooks/ADE version, I have a few links to websites (not in my main text, but just in my CIP data at the back of the book, in the "small print"). What happens with web links in devices that can't be used as a browser? On the iPad (and Mac) that's no problem, of course -- it just switches over to Safari and displays the web page -- but I have no idea what happens in other devices.
I'm wondering, I guess, if perhaps I should just get rid of those web links completely, or if perhaps I should just write out the URL in full. For example, right now I have stuff like this...
<a href="http://www.DomainName.com">A Website Somewhere</a>
I'm assuming that won't work in some Kindles -- since it's not a web browser...
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I'm not quite sure for older Kindle devices, but modern ones (K3 and newer) they have a "built-in" web browser.
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-- so would the best way to do that be to change that to something like this?...
<a href="http://www.DomainName.com">www.DomainName.com</a>
At least then the reader can "see" what the link is, even if their device doesn't allow them to actually click on it, and go to it.
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That would be a good idea for the older Kindle models if they don't have a web browser. Maybe Hitch can inform you better about this point
Regards
Rubén