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Originally Posted by mrmikel
As far as the vertical centering (or anything else) have you looked at the epub in Sigil or calibre editor where they show what CSS is acting on the text in question?
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Um, I'm designing the whole thing in Sigil, so it's kinda hard to avoid seeing what code affects what (especially since I'm the one that put it all in there)!
Also, JSWolf wrote...
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Originally Posted by ;2900053
Since you seem to be able to do what you want by using a font character, why not embed a font that has ornaments and pick one of them to use for the section breaks.
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I actually did that before, with the first ebook I designed (remember the one with all "ye olde fonts")?
In the process of doing that, I discovered that the problem with using an ornament(al) font in that way is that if people turn off the publisher's font -- or their device just doesn't support embedded fonts at all -- then you end up with a stupid letter (or whatever other character) where the ornament is supposed to be. When I first designed that other, first book of mine, with fonts turned off you ended up with a BIG letter "d" underneath all the chapter headings (where I'd used a font ornament in the same way I used the graphical one for this current one). To try to accommodate for that, what I did was edit the font, put the ornament I wanted to use in the em-dash slot, and so if people did turn off the embedded font then at least they'd have what looked like a small underline (at a large font size) underneath the chapter headings.
In other words... yeah, that was definitely something I considered! But for this current context, with my needing that "poem break" in only two places in the 500-odd page book, I figured this asterisk thing would work out okay (and it looks okay, too).
