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Old 12-07-2012, 01:18 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
The MOBI source file format is documented and HarryT has written a great tutorial on how to prepare files for use by Mobipocket Creator. This tool is in the wiki with links to both Harry's tutorial and one that is located on the Mobipocket web site. This will tell you exactly what you need to do to make a .mobi by hand. Note Mobi does not support any CSS at all so the KindleGen program converts some CSS into a form needed my Mobi. The Something like Don't do list changes every time Amazon releases a new KindleGen.
Thanks DaleDe! Is this the HarryT tutorial that you're talking about? It seems a little old. I found a few hints regarding what to do here as well.

I didn't know about the lack of CSS support; I just started to read up on the MOBI format. How is it handled then, by using plain HTML attributes, and styling text with
Code:
<i>italic</i>
instead of
Code:
<span style="font-style:italic;">italic</span>
?
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