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Old 08-04-2016, 11:43 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by StephanMatson View Post
Hello,
I recently compiled my ebook in Sigil, but before I publish the work I ran it through Amazons Kindle Preview Emulator to see what the final product would look like. The problem I'm facing is that the text doesnt wrap around to the next line correctly. Where the text ends on the right of the Sigil window, in the emulator it single spaces to the next line and ruins the layout.

For instance I could have

<SNIP>



Which turns into

"The boy from Oklahoma bought a plane and decided to drive
race cars instead.

Bit then he decided to go to the mall and buy an icecream"


Any suggestions?


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Stephan

Stephan:

As notjohn, and Diap, and everybody else (mostly) said, there's nothing wrong with the result you are getting.

Unless you are making a FIXED-LAYOUT eBook--which you are most certainly not making in Sigil--then, you do not have precise control over line- and word-wrapping and hyphenation.

If I read the text right--if indeed it's from your book--perhaps you are endeavoring to create a child's book? Perhaps something like an Easy Reader, with images and text on the same "page," for lack of a better term?

Can you let us know what you are trying to do? And, if perhaps you have a PDF of the page that you laid out, or some other immutable thing, could you screenshoot that, and show us what you are trying to achieve?

I could be wrong--of course!--but my tummy is telling me that perhaps you are trying to make a Fixed-layout book. If that is so, I'm sorry to say, you are on the wrong path, at the moment.

Let us know.

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