Testing epub book on readers?

[Freeshadow]

Originally Posted by GraciousMe

The language presents no problems.

ADE and Reader don´t show Italic and Text align.

It presents no problems on your PC, because your OS has the language support for it. Wether stand-alone readers support all needed glyphs is a different topic.

as far as alignment is concerned, check epub subforum for css-snippet examples

[Toxaris]

As I also said in your other thread, if ADE does not display the italic and text align, there is probably an issue in your stylesheet. ADE is very picky and the viewer in Sigil and Calibre very forgiving.
Please post your stylesheet.

[mrmikel]

Originally Posted by GraciousMe

The language presents no problems.

ADE and Reader don´t show Italic and Text align.

The above may not necessarily be true if you have used calibre to create the text.

One of the objections to Calibre, as wonderful as it is, is that in order to achieve cross platform compatibility, it does things in complicated ways. Instead of simply using bold or italic, it creates whole new styles and series of styles. Then it throws in a number of <div class="bs2">s, for example, in order to display ordinary text.

These cascading styles can make it appear that things don't work, when in fact there is an active style which already covers the paragraph in question. This could be the cause of your troubles, as the rendering engines of calibre and Sigil are not the same as in the readers or Reader Library or Kindle for PC.

One other possibility is that reader software may not make any attempt to guess if your code is defective, even to the wrong case being used. Sigil and Calibre's rendering engines I think make more of an attempt to guess, and may work, even though the code is wrong.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by GraciousMe

The language presents no problems.

ADE and Reader don´t show Italic and Text align.

What language is your book in? That's not a secret, is it?

[Freeshadow]

Originally Posted by HarryT

What language is your book in? That's not a secret, is it?

Unless there's an Elder Seal on the front cover

[theducks]

Originally Posted by GraciousMe

The language presents no problems.

ADE and Reader don´t show Italic and Text align.

That means you have a stylesheet error.

ADE is not forgiving and will ignore a style or the whole stylesheet if there is an error.
The w3c CSS validation service http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/#validate_by_upload is useful

Look for a typo or a missing or wrongly used colon or semicolon

BTW
you need to imbed the Italic version of a font if you want to use that face
and
you need to embed the Bold_Italic if you want to use that face.

(you could possibly need all 4 faces )

[Toxaris]

This issue is solved. He/she posted the stylesheet in the other thread and there was a quote too much.

[GraciousMe]

Originally Posted by theducks

BTW
you need to imbed the Italic version of a font if you want to use that face
and
you need to embed the Bold_Italic if you want to use that face.

You mean if I want to use a specific font for the book?

I´d love to, but this time around I will practice being flexible and not do that, just suggest something general like Garamond / serif.

[GraciousMe]

Originally Posted by HarryT

What language is your book in?

Swedish.

And I wonder if I should insert some code about the language, or if it takes care of itself...

[AlPe]

Insert it in the <language> tag of the <metadata> section of the OPF file. The correct code for Swedish is 'sv'.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by mrmikel

The above may not necessarily be true if you have used calibre to create the text.

One of the objections to Calibre, as wonderful as it is, is that in order to achieve cross platform compatibility, it does things in complicated ways. Instead of simply using bold or italic, it creates whole new styles and series of styles. Then it throws in a number of <div class="bs2">s, for example, in order to display ordinary text.

These cascading styles can make it appear that things don't work, when in fact there is an active style which already covers the paragraph in question. This could be the cause of your troubles, as the rendering engines of calibre and Sigil are not the same as in the readers or Reader Library or Kindle for PC.

One other possibility is that reader software may not make any attempt to guess if your code is defective, even to the wrong case being used. Sigil and Calibre's rendering engines I think make more of an attempt to guess, and may work, even though the code is wrong.

Garbage in, garbage out. Calibre is only as good as the garbage input to it. A lot of Mobipocket eBooks are full of garbage code and thus, Calibre gives similar code to the ePub. I've never had Calibre convert such that an italics/bold did not work as it should have regardless of how messy the code was.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

A lot of Mobipocket eBooks are full of garbage code and thus, Calibre gives similar code to the ePub.

Why do you insist on saying stuff like this? MOBI is no more predisposed to being "full of garbage code" than any other format is. Not supporting CSS means that there will be much more in the way of inline attributes—spans and font tags and the like. It certainly doesn't look as good; I'll grant you that. And while that's unfortunate and not as "pretty" to look at or as "editable" as xhtml with some subtly applied CSS might be, it's not "garbage code," it's the code that's required to make a MOBI function.

Garbage code is garbage code... and no format is immune or predisposed to it. They're all equally susceptible.

[AlPe]

I agree, except for:

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

no format is immune or predisposed to it. They're all equally susceptible.

Counterexample: THIS (Turing-complete, but the name says it all...)

PS: I hope this off-topic-y, "calm-down-guys" post is appreciated for its nature, i.e., for being off-topic and hilarious

PS 2: thanks to the "family friendly rules" of MR, I had to remove the name of the programming language (!) previously cited in the post...

[DiapDealer]

Well, other than not being an eBook format (which is what I meant by "no format")... it is quite humorous.

Not that anyone was excited enough to warrant a "calm-down-guys" post. Just par for the course.

[GraciousMe]

Originally Posted by AlPe

Insert it in the <language> tag of the <metadata> section of the OPF file. The correct code for Swedish is 'sv'.

So that is enough, for the whole book?

No need for this?

<body xml:lang="SV" xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace">

I see I have it in some of my chapters. (Still in the process of un-messing it all.)