h1 pagebreak without h2

[bookdragon]

I am formatting a book of poetry and have used this in the css to create a page break between each poem.

h1 {
page-break-before: always;
}

My problem is it is breaking at h2 as well. Since some poems are broken into multiple parts with each part marked h2 this is not good.

Does anyone know how I can fix this??

Thanks!

[DiapDealer]

Does anyone know how I can fix this??

By taking out the css that tells it break at h2?
That's not default behavior in the epub readers I have experience with... so I assume something in the css is telling it to do so. What are you viewing the epub with?

Please tell me it's not a Kindle after you've converted the epub to a kindlebook with calibre. If so, it's very likely a calibre conversion setting that's tripping you up, and not the css/xhtml of the epub at all.

[bookdragon]

I am using the Calibre ebook viewer as I edit to see the effects of my changes. The book however is intended to be uploaded to Amazon so their conversions will occur in the final product.

I do not have anything in the css about breaking at h2. My css is as below. The book seems to be breaking at each TOC entry now, yet it did not break at all prior to my adding the h1 break. I ended up creating a copy then removing the H2 tags and using a bold font at the heading of each part and redoing my TOC to Just H1 heading so the poems can stay intact. This worked as expected. I am however editing several books of poetry and would like to figure out how to get this to work correctly in my next project.

Spoiler:

@page {
margin-bottom: 5pt;
margin-top: 5pt;
}

h1 {
page-break-before: always;
}


.calibre {
display: block;
font-size: 1em;
line-height: 1.2;
padding-left: 0;
padding-right: 0;
text-align: justify;
margin: 0 5pt
}
.calibre1 {
display: block;
margin: 1em 0
}
.calibre2 {
height: auto;
width: auto
}
.calibre3 {
display: block;
font-size: 1.5em;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 1.2;
text-indent: 0;
margin: 0
}
.calibre4 {
font-size: 0.66667em;
line-height: 1.2
}
.calibre5 {
display: block
}
.calibre6 {
display: block;
text-indent: 0;
margin: 0
}
.calibre7 {
font-size: 0.75em;
line-height: 1.2;
vertical-align: sub
}
.calibre8 {
display: block;
font-size: 0.75em;
height: 1em;
line-height: 1.2;
border: currentColor none 0;
margin: 0
}
.calibre9 {
font-size: 0.75em
}
.calibre10 {
display: block;
font-size: 1.375em;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 1.2;
text-indent: 0;
margin: 0
}
.calibre11 {
font-size: 0.54545em;
line-height: 1.2
}
.calibre12 {
display: block
}
.calibre13 {
display: block;
padding-left: 20px
}
.calibre14 {
display: block;
font-size: 1em;
line-height: 1.2;
padding-left: 0;
padding-right: 0;
margin: 0 5pt
}
.calibre15 {
display: block;
padding-left: 10px
}
.italic {
font-style: italic
}

[cybmole]

how many xhtml files do you have - a reader will break on every new file irrespective of H tags

[exaltedwombat]

Yes, if you want a page-break, why not put in a page-break? Which in Sigil means splitting the html file. It's easy to do.

[mrmikel]

These particular issues aside, formatting poetry is something much discussed on this forum. It is difficult to get it right at one text size, let alone when the user punches the increase size button.

If it must be a certain layout then epub may not be for you, since it is by its very nature designed to reflow. This is not say don't try, but don't bet the farm on it. If the user increases the size large enough, it will break somewhere where you may not want it to.