Inserting page breaks before headings

[fabianmoreno01]

Hello!

I'm reading a book which is mostly short-form poetry and I'd like each poem to start on a new page. (I'm on a Kobo Aura One with Calibre 3.48 as my Mac is running on High Sierra.)

I've tried adding the following piece of code:

page-break-before: always;

at the following position:

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
	page-break-before: always;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-style: normal;
	text-align: left;
	page-break-after: avoid;
}

I'm not getting any change when I load the ebook back on the Kobo. Is it a coding problem or an upload issue? (Also, I'd probably need it only for h4-5-6 or something like that, though I'm not sure how to know exactly.)

Thank you!

[hobnail]

20 lashes with a wet noodle for making a duplicate post.

[hobnail]

Looks like a moderator deleted your other duplicate post with my answer in it.

Put each poem in its own file, that's sure to work. Maybe not the answer you wanted.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by fabianmoreno01

I'm not getting any change when I load the ebook back on the Kobo. Is it a coding problem or an upload issue?

It might be a book format issue. I seem to remember that some CSS is ignored by kepubs.

page-break-before: always;

being an example of this. However, it should work OK with standard epubs.

@hobnail's solution will work for both epub and kepub.

[Moonbase59]

Just a side note: For some odd reason, page-break-after is often much better supported than page-break-before.

[fabianmoreno01]

Thanks folks!

This seems to be a problem with the kepub format, as in epub it displays the page breaks correctly after my initial code injection.

Is there any way to make sure this formatting stays active when converting to kepub?

(I currently use the web version of Kepubify and I can't use the KoboTouchExtended plugin on my old OS.)

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by fabianmoreno01

Thanks folks!

This seems to be a problem with the kepub format, as in epub it displays the page breaks correctly after my initial code injection.

Is there any way to make sure this formatting stays active when converting to kepub?

If the kepub renderer doesn't support it, then it doesn't support it. kepubify will not be removing it. But, if you want to check, simply put the epub on the device and change the extension to ".kepub.epub". Most of what kepubify or the extended driver does is to add spans. They don't remove any CSS.

But, Kobo actually state they don't support them on the devices. See https://github.com/kobolabs/epub-spec and search for page break. They recommend starting a new HTML file if you need a page break.

[JSWolf]

Another solution is to read ePub which does support page breaks.

[fabianmoreno01]

Thanks y'all, with a special shoutout to @davidfor for letting me know what kepub won't support. This just saved me a lot of frustration!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by fabianmoreno01

Thanks y'all, with a special shoutout to @davidfor for letting me know what kepub won't support. This just saved me a lot of frustration!

Why not read your poetry in ePub? You get better typesetting and page breaks work.

[fabianmoreno01]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why not read your poetry in ePub? You get better typesetting and page breaks work.

@JSWolf I just switched to that for this exact reason. It's just a little slower but at least I get better quality.