Ok, found the problem. The page-template is techinically inside the spanish epub, but it never gets referenced, my bad for thinking that if a file exists inside a epub that it actually gets used. I use the german epub of ilias and odyssey as reference (this one also has "built in" 2 column mode). This is main01.htm:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Ilias und Odyssee</title>
<link href="resources/stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="resources/page-template.xpgt" type="application/vnd.adobe-page-template+xml" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="body">
<div id="p1" class="section">
<div class="text">
<h1 class="author">Homer</h1>
<h1 class="title">Ilias</h1>
</div></div></div>
</body>
</html>
The spanish main1.htm (truncated after the body begins). Notice between the blue lines, no page-template link:
Code:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>La Iliada</title>
<meta name="generator" content="pdftohtml 0.36"/>
<meta name="author" content="Homero"/>
<meta name="date" content="2003-06-05T13:00:24+00:00"/>
<meta name="subject" content="eBooket"/>
<meta content="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>
<link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<style type="text/css">
@page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; }</style>
</head>
<body class="calibre">[...]
after copying the red from german epub it works as desired - 2 column mode on very small font-size:
Code:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>La Iliada</title>
<meta name="generator" content="pdftohtml 0.36"/>
<meta name="author" content="Homero"/>
<meta name="date" content="2003-06-05T13:00:24+00:00"/>
<meta name="subject" content="eBooket"/>
<meta content="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>
<link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<link href="resources/page-template.xpgt" type="application/vnd.adobe-page-template+xml" rel="stylesheet" />
<style type="text/css">
@page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; }</style>
</head>
<body class="calibre">[...]
The stylesheet and page-template are both stylesheets? No? Would be nice to filter the bare minimum out of that to ADD to the stylesheet.css - and only change the stylesheet, and not each and every html file.
Sorry for the details, for someone working with epubs regularily I must seam like a Dodo bird. Did not know that I actually have to remember html coding just to enjoy my ereaders undocumented features ....
And do other ereaders do that too - displaying the 2 column automatically?