Newbie Q: html > Calibre > .mobi > Kindle on Mac

Fabe · 04-12-2010, 02:43 PM

Friends - My first post. I am a newbie to the ebook world. I formatted a book, ran it through Calibre to generate a .mobi file, and viewed it on Kindle for Macintosh. It looks great. However, it did not format exactly as I thought it would.

In the Kindle view, all text was left justified. In my Calibre view it appeared as I created it with three levels of indentation. I used heading 1 <h1> for left most justification, heading 2 <h2> for the next level, and a paragraph setting for the third and largest indentation. Here are the settings from my CSS code:

h1 {margin: 100.0px 0.0px 20.0px 9.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman; font-weight:bold}
h2 {margin: 35.0px 0.0px 12.0px 43.0px; text-indent: -25.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman; font-style

blique}
p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 66.0px; text-indent: -24.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman}

1. Is this a Calibre issue?
2. Should I use .mobi for Kindle?
3. Should I spend my time learning CSS and stop wasting your time? :-)
4. Am I in the right forum?

Thanks for any and all advice. - Fabe

Worldwalker · 04-12-2010, 02:58 PM

I'm not the right person to answer the whole question, since I'm not a Kindle user, but here's what I have:

1. I'm not sure, but my first thought is "Kindle issue."
2. Sorry, no clue.
3. Learning CSS is always a good thing, though in my current semiconscious state, yours seems valid.
4. That I can answer: Yes.

04-12-2010, 02:43 PM	#1
Fabe Dylanologist Posts: 200 Karma: 146754 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Hanover, New Hampshire, USA Device: none/all/any	Newbie Q: html > Calibre > .mobi > Kindle on Mac Friends - My first post. I am a newbie to the ebook world. I formatted a book, ran it through Calibre to generate a .mobi file, and viewed it on Kindle for Macintosh. It looks great. However, it did not format exactly as I thought it would. In the Kindle view, all text was left justified. In my Calibre view it appeared as I created it with three levels of indentation. I used heading 1 <h1> for left most justification, heading 2 <h2> for the next level, and a paragraph setting for the third and largest indentation. Here are the settings from my CSS code: h1 {margin: 100.0px 0.0px 20.0px 9.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman; font-weight:bold} h2 {margin: 35.0px 0.0px 12.0px 43.0px; text-indent: -25.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman; font-styleblique} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 66.0px; text-indent: -24.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman} 1. Is this a Calibre issue? 2. Should I use .mobi for Kindle? 3. Should I spend my time learning CSS and stop wasting your time? :-) 4. Am I in the right forum? Thanks for any and all advice. - Fabe

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04-12-2010, 02:58 PM	#2
Worldwalker Curmudgeon Posts: 3,085 Karma: 722357 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: PRS-505	I'm not the right person to answer the whole question, since I'm not a Kindle user, but here's what I have: 1. I'm not sure, but my first thought is "Kindle issue." 2. Sorry, no clue. 3. Learning CSS is always a good thing, though in my current semiconscious state, yours seems valid. 4. That I can answer: Yes.

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