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mtrahan · 03-30-2015, 11:42 AM

Hey guys,

I’m facing a problem in a book of poetry and I’m afraid there is no perfect solution in ePub. It’s kinda hard to explain with my limited english, but there are many verses that are aligned with the end of the previous verse. See this blurred page (copyrighted stuff, sorry) from the PDF version for example :

I drew the black lines to show that the beginning of a verse must be aligned with the end of the previous one.

Is there a way to consistently replicate this kind of formatting? I’m afraid not, for many reasons (for example, users can switch fonts).

The closest solution I thought of was to create a style for every strangely aligned verse and tweak the left margin for every one of them... which doesn’t seem like a very good solution, since there are so many. And it probably won’t even be consistent when users change fonts, etc.)

The option I proposed to the publisher is to uniformize these strangely aligned verse to a common value (left margin). He doesn’t really like this option, but I don’t exactly see a better one.

Am I missing something here? Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Michael

03-30-2015, 11:42 AM	#1
mtrahan Colonel Mustard Posts: 90 Karma: 1426 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Montreal Device: iPhone 6, Kindle Paperwhite 2, iPad 2	Poetry Verses Alignment Problem Hey guys, I’m facing a problem in a book of poetry and I’m afraid there is no perfect solution in ePub. It’s kinda hard to explain with my limited english, but there are many verses that are aligned with the end of the previous verse. See this blurred page (copyrighted stuff, sorry) from the PDF version for example : I drew the black lines to show that the beginning of a verse must be aligned with the end of the previous one. Is there a way to consistently replicate this kind of formatting? I’m afraid not, for many reasons (for example, users can switch fonts). The closest solution I thought of was to create a style for every strangely aligned verse and tweak the left margin for every one of them... which doesn’t seem like a very good solution, since there are so many. And it probably won’t even be consistent when users change fonts, etc.) The option I proposed to the publisher is to uniformize these strangely aligned verse to a common value (left margin). He doesn’t really like this option, but I don’t exactly see a better one. Am I missing something here? Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Michael