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How do I create chapters without a page-break between?
How do I have chapters run together on a single page, without a page-break. I'm recreating a book that doesn't page-break at new chapters. There's just a little bit of space and then a new chapter number and on you go. I've seen this done in ebooks before but really can't find a decent example right now to look at.
Even though there isn't a page-break, each chapter is setup as a separate html file. There are no page-before options set. I don't know if something isn't coded right in Sigil or if it's a Calibre issue when I do my final conversion to mobi. I don't see options set there that I think would be causing it either. Do I need to have all fifty some-odd chapters setup as one single html file with the chapter headers marked within the file? It doesn't seem like that would make a difference but maybe it does. Any ideas? Thanks. - Byron |
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Look in the Style sheet for a "page-break-before:...", that may give you some control. I suggest you read up on that before doing wild things with the setting: |
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I'll keep playing and looking for another response. Thanks for the advice. I really appreciate it. - Byron |
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There might be something else you can do but I don't have more time to experiment. You could try playing around with any of the following: page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; page-break-before: avoid; |
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See Valloric's post here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55960 |
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Thanks guys for confiming what I was already starting to believe.
I may try combining the files into one file with the heading tags to differentiate between the chapters. The total text of the book is less than 500 or 600k so that should work. It just may not be worth it though. I'll try it and see how it works and how it looks. Thanks again everyone. - Byron |
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That includes those with small graphics. |
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Just an opinion but I really prefer my chapters to start on a fresh page rather than a continuous run. It also makes for much easier editing.
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I agree with you guys. It's just that I'm trying to recreate a book as close to the original as the ebook medium will allow.
It's going well but I have definitely noticed a little speed decrease working with much larger files. It's not too bad though. - Byron |
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but a long book will probably have Parts, Compromize Start at a Part break. |
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In epubs you dont have pagenumbers (well, readers sometimes show them, but they will vary from reader to reader and have nothing to with the real books page numbering), you dont have headers nor footers, footnotes are not at the end of a page but are clickable right in the text. For a good navigation the table of content should not be in the book itself as text but in the meta data, you do not have control over the font size and often not over the font itself. So why insist in a continuous flow over chapters? |
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You should not insist in assumptions like that. "640k should be enough for everyone" is of the same kind. Better keep track for limitations, you dont know what your next reader is able to handle after your current one is not working any more.
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