LRF output

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

How can one make hanging indents with html2lrf?

What's a hanging indent?

EDIT: If it means what I think it means, this will do the trick, provided each logical line is at most one physical line long:

<p style="text-indent:0pt">First line</p>
<p style="text-indent:30pt">Second line
<p style="text-indent:30pt">Third line</p>

[JSWolf]

A hanging indent is a paragraph where the first line sticks out father then the rest of the lines in the paragraph. Your sample won't work properly as it disables proper word wrap. It makes seperate lines instead of a proper paragraph.

Take the above paragraph and move the rest of the text so it starts under the first g in hanging and you have it. Also it should be a proper paragraph and not seperate lines. So when you resize the font, it stays a hanging indent.

[kovidgoyal]

sticks out to the left or the right?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

sticks out to the left or the right?

To the left.

Here is a link that defines a hanging indent...

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/hanging_indent.html

[kovidgoyal]

yeah to have this ability html2lrf would need to support the margin css property, which I'm insufficiently motivated to support.

[JSWolf]

So basically then there will not be any proper way to format some poetry or scripts. That's too bad.

[kovidgoyal]

I dont see why poetry requires hanging indents. Indeed I've never read any poetry that has hanging indents.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I dont see why poetry requires hanging indents. Indeed I've never read any poetry that has hanging indents.

LaughingVulcan said (in another thread) that he's trying to format some poetry with hanging indents.

[kovidgoyal]

Well he can just leave out the hanging indents, the poetry wont suffer too much.

[LaughingVulcan]

Mmmm.... that's what I was afraid of in my thread. While not an absolute for poetry formatting, it is the way that I *strongly* prefer to read it.

There is a (poor) example of hanging indent in html here.

For those not reading the link, I'll share the following example from my other thread:

("fakey" margins of reader below)

*---*---*---*---*---*---*
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
And the sneeze in the breeze upsets the bees.

I would want to have become:

*---*---*---*---*---*---*
The quick brown fox jumps 
     over the lazy dog.
And the sneeze in the 
     breeze upsets the
     bees.

Instead of

*---*---*---*---*---*---*
The quick brown fox jumps 
over the lazy dog.
And the sneeze in the 
breeze upsets the bees.

As I mentioned there, this can be achieved with the (laborious) process of inserting line breaks manually, but the breaks won't work right when the size is upped to Medium and then Large. (In fact, it gets virtually unreadable on upping the size.)


Thanks JS for passing it over to this thread...

And thank you, Kovid, for HTML2LRF and the rest of the apps. It still rocks!

[kovidgoyal]

Try inserting blank lines between sentences to improve readability.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Try inserting blank lines between sentences to improve readability.

I think that'll just make it a mess to read. I would not want to read it like that.

[kovidgoyal]

Version 0.3.96 is on its way to the servers:
1) Completely refactored to optimize memory usage. Hopefully this hasn't introduced too many new bugs.
2) Added support for <sup> and <sub>
3) Fixed handling of text-indent (should make the indent correct in lit files)
4) Various minor bug fixes.

[irishjew]

I first just want to say that Kovid is God. Secondly, I apologize if this has already been touched on, but I have a strange problem, and I'm a bit of a noob. I found one html file that had internal links for each chapter, and I tried to copy that code into a book of short stories I'm converting to lrf in order to make a table of contents. The links work just fine in html, but when I convert the file to lrf, they are nowhere to be found. Does anyone have an idea of what might cause that?

[kovidgoyal]

Run it with the --verbose switch