Quote:
Originally Posted by GarryB123
Thank you Kovid and JSWolf
In the editor, I copied the CSS from the book that looked good to me, and pasted it in place of the CSS in the book I didn't like the look of. It worked! I don't know if this was the right thing to do but it worked; and was easy. Was that the wrong way to go about standardizing a look and feel? Could it mess something up?
|
It is a very good way to screwup the look and feel. If you look in the CSS, you'll see some apply the basic paragraph formatting to the p tag and then modify that for the variant paragraph types which others use separate classes for paragraph types as an example. Chapter headers, section breaks, etc. are also going to be very susceptible to damage.
Quote:
Originally Posted by GarryB123
Is there a tutorial to accomplish a standard look and feel using conversion?
|
Not that I've ever seen. You might want to take a look at some the stylesheets in the Sigil, epub and workshop forums. One sample thread is
Stylesheet examples? in the Sigil forum. One warning is that stylesheets tend to be highly personal reflecting the user's approach to formatting so don't be afraid to start collecting snippets into your own personal stylesheet.
Basically, take a backup copy of your epub, edit the stylesheet and see what it looks like (I'd suggest either Sigil or calibre' editor -- I use both). It won't blowup your computer and it's a great way to learn.
I was going to suggest Liz Castro's Pigs, Gourds and Wikis site which was one of my favourites years back for information on editing ebooks but it seems she has moved on to Catalan independence and that site is pretty much moribund though much of the content is still available through searching.