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LaughingVulcan · 08-16-2007, 09:59 PM

^ I'm not sure that would work, since what I'm looking to do is indent words that scroll past one line. For example:

("fakey" margins of reader below)

Code:


*---*---*---*---*---*---*
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

I would want to have become:

Code:


*---*---*---*---*---*---*
The quick brown fox jumps 
      over the lazy dog.

I can achieve this by manually going through the text and chopping it off (which I did to remove all the Project Gutenberg self-imposed line breaks... *ugh* and I wouldn't look forward to doing that again....)
But then when I bump it up to Medium size, I've got the problem back even worse. And I do like using the size, as I usually set Standard to 9 point and then usually read on Medium.

I cheated just a little when it looked like I wouldn't be able to get Book Designer to do it, and copied the BD html to another file, renamed it html, and then tried manipulating that in OpenOffice and WordPad. (I tried opening it in Word, only to get an annoying error message.) Anyhoo, I tried doing a find-and-replace for "align=justify" and adding in margin and negative para indents there. No dice when I ran that through HTML2LRF (though I did leave the "justify" in and maybe that screwed it up.) - It generated fine, just without indent or hanging indent.

Of course, the alternative is to simply ignore the problem - it looked just fine using Book Designer except for the line wrap "problem" which I find very distracting for poetry reading.

Anyway, thanks for the help so far! Any other suggestions?

08-16-2007, 09:59 PM	#5
LaughingVulcan Technophile Posts: 206 Karma: 617 Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Land of Lincoln Device: Kobo Sage. Ex Sony (PRS-500, -600, -650 and Nook)	^ I'm not sure that would work, since what I'm looking to do is indent words that scroll past one line. For example: ("fakey" margins of reader below) Code: ------------------* The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. I would want to have become: Code: ------------------* The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. I can achieve this by manually going through the text and chopping it off (which I did to remove all the Project Gutenberg self-imposed line breaks... ugh and I wouldn't look forward to doing that again....) But then when I bump it up to Medium size, I've got the problem back even worse. And I do like using the size, as I usually set Standard to 9 point and then usually read on Medium. I cheated just a little when it looked like I wouldn't be able to get Book Designer to do it, and copied the BD html to another file, renamed it html, and then tried manipulating that in OpenOffice and WordPad. (I tried opening it in Word, only to get an annoying error message.) Anyhoo, I tried doing a find-and-replace for "align=justify" and adding in margin and negative para indents there. No dice when I ran that through HTML2LRF (though I did leave the "justify" in and maybe that screwed it up.) - It generated fine, just without indent or hanging indent. Of course, the alternative is to simply ignore the problem - it looked just fine using Book Designer except for the line wrap "problem" which I find very distracting for poetry reading. Anyway, thanks for the help so far! Any other suggestions? Last edited by LaughingVulcan; 08-16-2007 at 10:00 PM. Reason: Had to use "code" to get the extra spaces to show...