[Psymon]

Originally Posted by GrannyGrump

If you need to have the nbsp content to preserve your page display

I'm wondering if i really do -- I'll get to that in a sec, but first with regard to your suggestion...

if you put a simple div (no page-break) with nbsp, or a <br /> with nbsp on the <p> that holds the top image like so:

<p class="header">&nbsp;<br /><img alt="ornament" src="../Images/header-red.gif" /></p>

Then play with margin, font-size to get the same offset that displays after the programmatic page-break on the "catalogue" page.

I actually thought about that before, although I hadn't tried it out because I could see that it would still not resolve the issue of my header image getting bumped down a little. While the title page and that "catologue" page (ToC) would hopefully be even up at the top, later on in the book, if one scene (chapter) of the play ended on the left-hand page -- this is all assuming one is looking at the book with a two-page spread, of course -- and then the next scene started on the right-hand page, then one would still see the issue of the header image not being flush at the top, even with the text on the left.

With all of the other books I've made previous to this one, I never noticed this issue before, because I've generally left a fair bit of white space at the beginning of each chapter anyway.

VERY inelegant, I know.

Yeah, while I do appreciate the suggestion, it is a bit kludgy -- plus the issue that I mentioned before. So it's a kludgy solution that doesn't actually "solve" the problem. In a way, it solves one problem by intentionally adding in another (so to speak).

In any case, I wonder if this is all moot anyway, for me to be worried about needing to add an nbsp in that div? I had actually only been planning on putting this book on the iBooks store -- I long ago got totally fed up with designing for amazon :/ -- and for those devices I guess I don't really need to worry about their things "breaking" at my page breaks because they don't have that problem (unless I'm mistaken about that).

Still, though, I guess it would be nice if I could get a "perfect" ebook that could work outside of that platform -- but it seems like trying to accomplish that is almost like trying to design for, well, amazon.