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Old 02-14-2010, 02:18 PM   #624
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Formatting ePub Poetry & Pagination

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Originally Posted by solitaire View Post
Hmmm, I am unable to see any advantage in this "feature", as most of us view it as a bug.

So what is the actual page size in this format? I mean what are the dimensions at which one page turn = incremeting the page number by 1?

I am trying to format an a 20-page poetry chapbook, which has a long history in English literature, into an ePub eChapbook. The problem I'm having on my Sony Reader is the pagination comes up as 6 pages total. Each ePub page is really 2 to 4 pages. I initially tried to get around the problem by adding a lot of spaces between poems, then <h> horizontal lines, which are ugly and don't result in page breaks that the Sony Reader counter recognizes. Since I want to publish it on Amazon, which requires 20 pages minimum I'm in a bind.

I also put in the WordPerfect created html file, prior to using Calibre to generate an ePub, a Table of Contents, which works, jumping from the TOC to the title of each poem, but without effecting page count:
<a href="#sectionname">Title</a>
<h4 id="sectionname">Title</h4>

I've read the several previous messages related to pagination and the documents at the links, all beyond my level of competence.

Anyone have a suggestion or trick that would work?

Thanks,

Fred
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