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Quoth · 10-21-2020, 01:57 PM

Indesign was meant for paper (and by implication PDFs which really are only proofs of paper). The epub support is a fudge and produces ghastly stuff.

Far better to use a Wordprocessor. Use Styles. Totally trivial to set top margin, left, right, first line and bottom.

Then Sigil or Calibre to convert a docx to epub.

Then the above example is totally automatic converting docx to epub if the margins are set in pt. The convention is 12pt = 1em. Almost all rendering engines use that if the CSS is in points.

10-21-2020, 01:57 PM	#9
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,396 Karma: 107076273 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Indesign was meant for paper (and by implication PDFs which really are only proofs of paper). The epub support is a fudge and produces ghastly stuff. Far better to use a Wordprocessor. Use Styles. Totally trivial to set top margin, left, right, first line and bottom. Then Sigil or Calibre to convert a docx to epub. Then the above example is totally automatic converting docx to epub if the margins are set in pt. The convention is 12pt = 1em. Almost all rendering engines use that if the CSS is in points. Last edited by Quoth; 10-21-2020 at 02:00 PM.