Catalog Questions

[phossler]

I was experimenting with the new PDF file option in the eViewer as well as editing the catalog epub with the editor

Q1. On the catalog's TOC, the Genres section spells out each separate genre by name, but Authors and Series are grouped by first letter. Could each author and each series also be in the TOC (maybe as a level 3)? That would make it easier to use the TOC.

Q2. I was going to replace the catalog's style sheets with my own (almost the same, mostly font and size changes). Many catalog class names are specific and I assume are always named the same, making it easy for my to come up with a replacement class, or just re-use the one that's there

Spoiler:

.author_index {
  clear: both;
  display: block;
  font-size: 1.125em;
  font-weight: bold;
  line-height: 1.2;
  text-align: left;
  text-indent: 0;
  margin: 0.25px 0 -2px;
}
.author_logical_group {
  display: block;
  page-break-inside: avoid;
}
.author_title_letter_index {
  clear: both;
  display: block;
  font-size: 1.25em;
  font-weight: bold;
  line-height: 1.2;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}
.calibre {
  background-color: white;
  display: block;
  font-size: 1em;
  line-height: 1.2;
  padding-left: 0;
  padding-right: 0;
  margin: 0 5pt;
}

However, some classes use the .calibre## format. Are these numbers the same each time I generate the catalog?

Spoiler:

.calibre24 {
  display: block;
  height: auto;
  overflow: hidden;
  z-index: 1;
}
.calibre25 {
  display: block;
  margin: 1em;
}

[phossler]

More experimenting --

If I do not include the descriptions in the catalog then there are a lot fewer classes generated, so I don't think I'd be able to count on a specific class name being used to the same thing each time.

True?

[eschwartz]

calibre## classes are created during the Flatten CSS stage of the output drivers, so I wouldn't bet on them remaining the same even when converting the same book two different times.

[phossler]

I guess I was wondering since many classes have 'descriptive' names (.author_index, .author_logical_group, etc. ) why generated catalog just couldn't use such 'descriptive' names for everything, instead of caliber## ones?

That way I could just replace the generated style sheet with my own style sheet with my choices for the formatting of 'descriptive' classes

[eschwartz]

Well, I am afraid I am not quite sure on the rules for when and where the flattened classes are created.