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Originally Posted by Psymon
Well, I can't really tell other people what app to use -- and even I tried out other ebook apps on my iPad, and ended up not liking them and basically just use iBooks, myself.
The problems I've been having with this dumb ornament are really incredible, though -- it's hard to believe that to just insert a simple image as an ornament in-between a couple of paragraphs and have it come out okay would be SO problematic! Makes me long for the days when things were just HTML, before CSS even existed, and all you had to do was put
<p align="center">
...and TA-DA!  |
I think your issues are due to you are ignoring that the size of margins are linked with fonts size. When you, for example, set a font-size of 3em and then, for the same style, you are asigning a margin-bottom of 1em, that 1em is an "em" of the size of 3em of a normal size
But look at the epub I attach; here you can see how I centered dividers and fleurons. It works under ADE and it should works also under iPad; here you can see two screenshoots:
Regarding the divider in the poetry section, take in count that I assigned to the ".poetry" <div> a width of 40%. Of course, you can assign any width you wish. Also that <div> is not centered since it has a margin-left of 10% (of course, you can set here a margin-left in "ems" if you want). But in order that the dividers here are centered, you must set -for dividers- a margin-left according to their width. In this case, since I assigned a width of 30% to the ".poetry_divider" class, its margin-left must be equal to 35% (35% * 2 + 30% = 100%). Of course, you can change the values I used for margins top and bottom.
Regards
Rubén