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Hitch · 05-28-2010, 04:52 PM

Hi, gang:

n.b. - this post is NOT about flowing text through newspaper-like columns.

I have a client who had her rights-reverted books scanned, sent 'em to me in Word to convert, so all good so far. She has one sort of unique aspect to the books; she has a "cast of characters" page(s) in the front, in which the players are identified, e.g.:

John Doe: (imagine a tab of white space here) Sarah's Husband
Michael Black: (imagine a tab of white space here) Sarah's Friend
Jane White: (imagine a tab of white space here) Sarah's Married Sister

I mean, you get the drift. In a word processor, these would be simple tabbed-over to x items with hard returns between them, since there's no "flowing" text.

I am completely clueless how I can format this in Sigil to look remotely reasonable. Does anyone have any suggestions? I've simply not used any type of tabbed (?) function or indentation within a line in Sigil, so insight would be freaking great. This is my first conversion for this client, so I'd be mighty grateful if I could look halfway smart coming out of the blocks, keep getting her books. I searched here and I've already read the manual (twice)....any thoughts?

Thx in advance!

05-28-2010, 04:52 PM	#1
Hitch Bookmaker & Cat Slave Posts: 11,503 Karma: 158448243 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Phoenix, AZ Device: K2, iPad, KFire, PPW, Voyage, NookColor. 2 Droid, Oasis, Boox Note2	Format tabbed text columns, NOT flowing Hi, gang: n.b. - this post is NOT about flowing text through newspaper-like columns. I have a client who had her rights-reverted books scanned, sent 'em to me in Word to convert, so all good so far. She has one sort of unique aspect to the books; she has a "cast of characters" page(s) in the front, in which the players are identified, e.g.: John Doe: (imagine a tab of white space here) Sarah's Husband Michael Black: (imagine a tab of white space here) Sarah's Friend Jane White: (imagine a tab of white space here) Sarah's Married Sister I mean, you get the drift. In a word processor, these would be simple tabbed-over to x items with hard returns between them, since there's no "flowing" text. I am completely clueless how I can format this in Sigil to look remotely reasonable. Does anyone have any suggestions? I've simply not used any type of tabbed (?) function or indentation within a line in Sigil, so insight would be freaking great. This is my first conversion for this client, so I'd be mighty grateful if I could look halfway smart coming out of the blocks, keep getting her books. I searched here and I've already read the manual (twice)....any thoughts? Thx in advance!