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Old Yesterday, 10:00 PM   #3
Giordano
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Originally Posted by Sirtel View Post
How are you trying to format your books and what exactly are you trying to achieve?
Partly it's simple things like tidying up the front matter and starting each chapter on a new page, things that many cheap or free ebooks fail at.

Partly it's implementing typesetting or layout conventions, e.g. "A poem with short lines should be centered in the column", as in the attached image.

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If by "different readers" you mean different reading apps, the problem is that many of them don't really respect the css code of ebooks. So even if you have formatted everything correctly, the book might still not display correctly in some apps.
I think that's the heart of my problem. So far I haven't been able to find any information on which apps (including the built-in apps on Kindles, Kobos etc.) implement which bits of CSS/HTML). With that i might be able to work out a subset that can achieve what I want and hopefully will also work with Calibre's conversions.

Can you suggest where to look?

TIA,
John
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