Using sun or star-shaped characters in ebooks

[Sweetpea]

What character are you using? The extended character or its HTML equivalent?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by starrigger

Thanks for the offer, but let me think about it, Jon. I want to keep this as simple as possible, and I also want whatever I do to survive conversions that users might later make in Calibre. This book (Sunborn, world edition) will be going to the overseas Kindle market first, while I continue to work on a way to sell the epub edition exclusively outside the U.S. (we discussed this in a different thread, and I haven't found a solution yet). I want the source file to be clean, with just one source file for all versions, if possible. (If corrections are needed later, I don't want to be updating multiple source files. Been there, done that.)

I'll think about it and let you know.

For the ePub, doing what you want is very easy. So if you do decide to do it, just let me know.

As to how to publish it outside the USA and not use Smashwords, that's a tough one.

[dwig]

Originally Posted by starrigger

Well, given that some people are going to read in K4PC, or Kindle for iPad, or whatever--why shouldn't I preview in K4PC? Besides, if you're talking about the Kindle Previewer on the production page, you can't use that until you're halfway through the publishing process.

I'm talking about the downloadable Kindle Previewer available here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...cId=1000234621

Proofing in the various "Kindle for ..." apps is fine, but they do not replicate the book's display on a Kindle device particularly well. While its probably best to preview in all of the apps, if you use only one use only Kindle Previewer.

[starrigger]

Originally Posted by dwig

I'm talking about the downloadable Kindle Previewer available here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...cId=1000234621

Proofing in the various "Kindle for ..." apps is fine, but they do not replicate the book's display on a Kindle device particularly well. While its probably best to preview in all of the apps, if you use only one use only Kindle Previewer.

What the--? In all the conversations about ebook publishing that I've had with people on all the different forums and email loops, I never heard that there was a downloadable Kindle previewer. You learn something every day. Thanks!

And now I've tested my snippet in the Kindle previewer, and both symbols display correctly there. What did I say before? Only one did in K4PC. I wonder why.

[starrigger]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

What character are you using? The extended character or its HTML equivalent?

Um, the extended character, I guess. One I got in Word using Alt+9733 on the numeric pad, and the other I got from the Symbols dropdown list.

I'm not touching the html, beyond exporting from Word to filtered html and importing that into Calibre.