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cybmole · 08-08-2014, 10:18 AM

i was reading a book in my latest tablet app- moon reader pro - & it seemed to be mangling some two-line headings-
So I returned to sigil to check book view & code:
in sigil book view, and in ADE, I see 2 lines of header, both centred,
and the code has the two lines wrapped in spans, with a
<br />
used to force a line break.
it is yucky code as there's also some a href stuff linking back to toc

but my issues is that moon reader displays it as
line 1 centred
line 2 left

whereas every other epub reader I try displays both lines as centered

so is there a relevant spec as to how it should render, or is there ambiguity

and - the hard sigil question now... is there an alternative to <br> that can be simply regexed into place that will keep both lines centered.

i kludged it with mutliple regex passes but ended up with wide spacing between the 2 header lines, as I forced them to be 2 x header lines of same class.

I can see this being an issue with other books in this reader. e.g. there could be a verse of poetry- cenetred - with <br> used to force the line breaks, and that would be even more of a pain to tweak if it came out as only the 1st line centered, the rest not centered

here's a snippet of the original crap (retail) code ( it's a Stephen King book
)

Code:

<body class="text" id="text">
  <div class="chapter" id="TOC-6">
    <h2 class="chp"><a href="../Text/wizardandglass_con01.html#TOCC-6"><span class="chapnum"><b>CHAPTER I</b></span><br />
    B<span class="largecap">ENEATH THE</span> D<span class="largecap">EMON</span> M<span class="largecap">OON</span> (I)</a></h2>

    <h3 class="sub1"><b>1</b></h3>

08-08-2014, 10:18 AM	#1
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	correct interpretation of <br> with centred text i was reading a book in my latest tablet app- moon reader pro - & it seemed to be mangling some two-line headings- So I returned to sigil to check book view & code: in sigil book view, and in ADE, I see 2 lines of header, both centred, and the code has the two lines wrapped in spans, with a <br /> used to force a line break. it is yucky code as there's also some a href stuff linking back to toc but my issues is that moon reader displays it as line 1 centred line 2 left whereas every other epub reader I try displays both lines as centered so is there a relevant spec as to how it should render, or is there ambiguity and - the hard sigil question now... is there an alternative to <br> that can be simply regexed into place that will keep both lines centered. i kludged it with mutliple regex passes but ended up with wide spacing between the 2 header lines, as I forced them to be 2 x header lines of same class. I can see this being an issue with other books in this reader. e.g. there could be a verse of poetry- cenetred - with <br> used to force the line breaks, and that would be even more of a pain to tweak if it came out as only the 1st line centered, the rest not centered here's a snippet of the original crap (retail) code ( it's a Stephen King book ) Code: <body class="text" id="text"> <div class="chapter" id="TOC-6"> <h2 class="chp"><a href="../Text/wizardandglass_con01.html#TOCC-6"><span class="chapnum"><b>CHAPTER I</b></span><br /> B<span class="largecap">ENEATH THE</span> D<span class="largecap">EMON</span> M<span class="largecap">OON</span> (I)</a></h2> <h3 class="sub1"><b>1</b></h3> Last edited by cybmole; 08-08-2014 at 10:23 AM.