Dear all
I've been reading a lot about making epubs lately - been trying to make an epub myself. Sometimes it seems that the more I read about it, the less certain I become that I am doing it right.
So I've constructed my epub, starting from a docx and converting it with calibre. I cleaned up the css the best I can with my limited knowledge of css/html.
For every section of the book I have a separate html file (cover, titlepage, chapters, author-info, copyright etc). Most of them were already present with the conversion of the docx, some I added by splitting in calibre viewer. My reader (sony) starts a new page for every single html file - and that's good, cause that's wat I was aiming.
BUT: I'm reading about page-breaks (and chapter breaks, and section breaks...) and now I'm lost again. Do I need them? Do I need to add breaks in my epub (which I thought was finished... maybe not)? In other words: are there reading devices out there that will not behave like my sony and disregard the split files all togeter, so that there will be no break between chapters etc?
If so, dear forum members, what do I do to secure the structure of my epub novel? Do I add a {page-break-before:always;} (or chapter break? or...) in my css and apply it to h1 or whatever is at the beginning of a new page - when that is just a <p> I'll make a special page-break class for that right? Or is it unnecessary, can I rely on my split files to do the breaking?
Thank you in advance for your answer.
JLius