Landscape Format

Cyberseeker · 04-20-2017, 06:11 AM

Im new at E-publishing and my existing paper book is wider than it is tall. This is because a continuous diagram (timeline) runs along the bottom of the pages. The diagrams are sequential so I dont want them divided into lots of little ones on numerous portrait pages.

I would like to create the e-book in landscape with 2 columns for the text and a single long diagram traversing the columns at the bottom. Every page would follow this basic format. I hope to create it using HTML.

Will my idea work in an epub environment? Comments please.

HarryT · 04-20-2017, 06:15 AM

Moved to the ePub forum.

HarryT · 04-20-2017, 06:17 AM

It's perhaps worth noting that the ePub 2 standard (which the overwhelming majority of current devices still support) does not support two-column text (ie a layout where the text flows from one column to the next).

Notjohn · 04-20-2017, 12:14 PM

I think that by default Kindle devices enable pages to flip, so this ought to work out okay UNLESS the owner has changed that option, as I have done. I hold my Fire tablet vertically, of course, so that a landscape orientation would be shrunk to the width of the screen, hence be difficult or impossible to read. I hope but don't know that I would remember how to go back to the default setting, so that if I turned the tablet 90 degrees it would fill out the landscaped screen.

(I know we're not talking epubs here, but I regularly go from one to the other.)

04-20-2017, 06:11 AM	#1
Cyberseeker Connoisseur Posts: 60 Karma: 602194 Join Date: Apr 2017 Device: Ipad	Landscape Format Im new at E-publishing and my existing paper book is wider than it is tall. This is because a continuous diagram (timeline) runs along the bottom of the pages. The diagrams are sequential so I dont want them divided into lots of little ones on numerous portrait pages. I would like to create the e-book in landscape with 2 columns for the text and a single long diagram traversing the columns at the bottom. Every page would follow this basic format. I hope to create it using HTML. Will my idea work in an epub environment? Comments please.

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04-20-2017, 06:15 AM	#2
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,560 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Moved to the ePub forum.

04-20-2017, 06:17 AM	#3
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,560 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	It's perhaps worth noting that the ePub 2 standard (which the overwhelming majority of current devices still support) does not support two-column text (ie a layout where the text flows from one column to the next).

04-20-2017, 12:14 PM	#4
Notjohn mostly an observer Posts: 1,519 Karma: 996810 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Kindle	I think that by default Kindle devices enable pages to flip, so this ought to work out okay UNLESS the owner has changed that option, as I have done. I hold my Fire tablet vertically, of course, so that a landscape orientation would be shrunk to the width of the screen, hence be difficult or impossible to read. I hope but don't know that I would remember how to go back to the default setting, so that if I turned the tablet 90 degrees it would fill out the landscaped screen. (I know we're not talking epubs here, but I regularly go from one to the other.)

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