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Originally Posted by TheArtfulDodger
OK, I guess I didn't ask the question well enough! I appreciate all of you trying to help, but...
Toxaris: I don't need to touch up on HTML because I intended to mean the layout of the HTML, not the finished product - I do know how to indent (I use 5%).
MrMikel: You understood what I meant - but I don't think that setting a value for TAB is Rocket Science - I thought there might be an entry (hidden) in the .ini file or something that would allow me to set the size of the TAB character!
radius: One man's trash is another man's treasure! I learned to program when there were only 72 characters for each line of code - an indent was large enough to see but not enough to waste valuable space. Plus I never said you had to use it! Remind me not to give you any of the books I create EPubs from!
So, I would guess from the lack of positive responses that there is no way to do what I wanted to do. Thanks anyway!
Sparky
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Sparky:
You have two statements in your reply that I find confusing. You tell Toxaris that you know to set your paragraph indents to 5%, but then to mrmikel, you say this:
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I don't think that setting a value for TAB is Rocket Science - I thought there might be an entry (hidden) in the .ini file or something that would allow me to set the size of the TAB character!
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...except there is literally no such thing as the 'tab character' in HTML, which is what Toxaris said to you initially. There's nothing called a "tab" in HTML, XHTML or CSS. There's no point in using it in BookView, as it will disappear entirely in the code view, which is all that matters. What you 'see' in Bookview won't be what shows up in your ePUB, if you are using tabs to try to "prettify" your book in BookView. To demonstrate this, use the TAB character and then switch to Codeview and look at the paragraph; you'll see that there is nothing there. That's because there is no tab character in HTML. (sorry to keep saying it, but there seems to be a real disconnect here).
Do you understand what I mean? Your ePUB will be built (as will any derived mobis) from the code, not from whatever is in Bookview. Bookview is merely a convenience, not a definitive "view" of the output. For that, use "Preview." Perhaps that will assist you.
Hitch