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Originally Posted by tacitus
Yeah, I guess my terminology was inaccurate. Really what I mean (in MS Word terms) is for the "before" paragraph spacing attribute to be honored after a page-break (i.e. at the start of a new chapter).
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That's because Word uses pages. There aren't any "pages" in an ebook, not really. There's no top-of-page, and thus...
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KF8 seems to handle that just fine, and by the time my next book is ready, I guess it may be time ditch the old format altogether.
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I'm really not trying to be argumentative, but it doesn't, actually. To get any type of "top-margin" to work for K8, you need separate HTML files for each chapter and/or section of frontmatter, which then accepts the top of the HTML file as the "top of the page," (essentially--I'm mis-speaking, but I'm trying to explain) and then moves the content to the correct place, e.g., top-margin: 2em or whatever the setting is.
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(Does Amazon keep stats on the number of old-format-only devices out there, in the same way Google tracks the different versions of Android?)
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No, but we know that there are still literally millions of K-1's, K-2's, DX's and early K3's (that didn't upgrade) out there.
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FWIW, this is what Calibre generates for mobi7:
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<p height="0pt" width="0pt" align="center">
<font size="2">*</font>
</p>
The * is actually 0xa0 (which is the ASCII version of correspond to )
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Well, as you say it works on the devices, I can't argue--I have to assume that Calibre subsequently parses that and makes it work. If I put that in an ePUB I was going to convert via KG or KP, it would display asterisks with a 2x font-size, not blank paragraphs. I assume that you'll download a copy of the on-sale book ASAP, and check it in real devices, etc.? (Sorry: I don't recall which devices you said you had or don't have).
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I assume if you specify KF8 instead, it will generate something different, but I suspect they will try to preserve the spacing in some way. They did a passable job of faking small caps for mobi7 (not good enough for me to want to use, but still...) by capitalizing the text and setting the appropriate font sizes.
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Those aren't small-caps; they're Raised Initials, and it's the only sort of faux-caps available for K7. They're extensively used for K7 and in K7 fallback coding for more-advanced books using media-queries.
Best of luck to you on your book sales.
Hitch