Blank lines vanishing in Kindle Previewer - iPhone mode

[HarryT]

Thanks for that, Donna - I've learnt something new, which is always good!

[DMSmillie]

You're welcome, Harry. And yes - great thing about these forums - I learn new stuff all the time here, which, as you say, is always good! Heh... I originally thought the CSS remained intact inside MOBI files. It was from people here I discovered that wasn't the case, and found the tools to start digging into MOBI files to see what actually ended up in there. I can get a bit obsessive at times about wanting to understand exactly what's going on "under the hood".

[Oxford-eBooks]

Donna, that's interesting about mobicreator inserting inline formatting like that.

Though, I'd always had problems with justification. If I had 'text-align:center' in my CSS it would always fail and I'd have to do:

<p class="centered_text" style="text-align:center">

as a belt-and-braces solution to work on everything. Oddly enough though (and I THINK I'm remembering rightly) it failed for Stanza on the iPhone -- which is ePUB.

Anhyoo... thanks all for the help, yep I'll go read the MOBI docs.
Perhaps now I can even get formatting to work on an non-upgraded GreenBook!

[DMSmillie]

Originally Posted by Oxford-eBooks

Donna, that's interesting about mobicreator inserting inline formatting like that.

Yes, was a bit of a revelation when I first used mobiunpack.py to look inside a MOBI file!

Note, though, that it was Kindlegen I used for that example, not Mobicreator. I expect the output is similar - possibly even identical - but although Kindlegen was based on Mobicreator, it's been updated since, so might create HTML in the MOBI file with slight differences compared to Mobicreator.

[Oxford-eBooks]

Works a treat!However epubcheck kicks out "attribute 'height' not allowed at this point: ignoring"

odd...

[HarryT]

This is Mobi-specific syntax; it's not something that would belong in an ePub book. Hardly surprising that an ePub syntax checker doesn't like it.