Can’t get formatting correct

[BookGirl310]

Not sure if anyone is familiar with the Ellen Hopkins books (Burned, Crank, Impluse, etc.), but I’m having trouble getting formatting correct.

The books are all printed in a certain way, broken up a bit so certain words line up to make other sentences & such, like this:



I don’t even know if there IS a way to get the text to line up properly in Calibre. I know the formatting is possible, as the downloaded samples of other of her books from the Nook store are correct, but is there any way to do it myself?

[Terisa de morgan]

It looks like different paragraphs with a padding-left/margin-left > 0 and a text-indent < 0 in the css stylesheet. If that doesn't work, I'm out of ideas.

[BetterRed]

@BookGirl310 - this is really an XHTML coding question. It would be better asked in the ePUB forum, which is where the ePub coding specialists tend to hang out.

I can move the thread there if you wish.

BR

[retiredbiker]

Not difficult, but depending on what you have to start with it could be a bit tedious. There are probably many ways to code it, but this should give you an idea. Like some verse, you may have to have each line as its own paragraph with its specific style class, and if there are lines long enough to spill over (depending on how you're reading it, display size, and so on) you would have to figure out how to handle that.

The title line, "triangle" might have CSS code for its class like this: (name the classes whatever you like)

font-size: 2em;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: left;
text-indent: 0;
margin-top: 0;
margin-right:0;
margin-bottom: 2em;
margin-left: 0;

Then each indented line like "Scientists say..." would be something like:

font-size: 1em;
text-align: left;
text-indent: 0;
margin-top: 0;
margin-right:0;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: 3em;

And each line like "I say" would be:

font-size: 1em;
text-align: left;
text-indent: 0;
margin-top: 1.5em;
margin-right:0;
margin-bottom: .5em
margin-left: 0;

I'm just guessing at the actual margin values from your example, you can play with them, but this should give a reasonable approximation.