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Automating <a href=""> Links (EPUB, HTML)
EDIT: Disregard this question, I solved it using regular expressions (I thought they wouldn't work in this scenario but they did)
I'm working on a translation of a text which is divided into short, ...
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xpath in the calibre editor
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In some search operations in calibre one can use an xpath expression to get the values for particular tags, i.e. the following expression:
//h:div[re:test(@class, "figbox", "i")]
selects ...
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How can I highlight visited anchors in an epub?
Suppose I insert the following anchor in an epub...
<span id="horse"></span>The first horses in America . . .
Then I insert a link in the index...
Horse, in America, <a href="..Text/...
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How to alternate row colors of tables in ePub files
Can anyone tell me how to create tables with alternating row colors in an epub? For example, I might want the default background color to be white, but every other row would have a light blue ...
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How can I prevent a widowed/orphaned header?
I have a chapter that has brief information for each of the 50 states. Each section begins with a state's name in a h4 tag.
When I preview my book, I sometimes see a header resting on the bottom of a ...
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Internal Links Between InDesign Documents Don't Work
First, a little background: I created a series of documents, each one representing a chapter in my book. Then I created a book and imported all the documents into it. It seems to be working OK; when I ...
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Can I use bold and italics tags?
I'm new to epubs; I'm wading through the InDesign tutorials and will then have to learn how to work with iBooks Author (and perhaps Sigil as well).
Anyway, I ran into an unexpected snag in InDesign: ...
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Importing XHTML Files into InDesign
I just watched a series of InDesign tutorials on Lynda.com. It looks relatively simple, but one thing I'm hung up on is importing content.
I created my book as a website in Dreamweaver, so I could ...
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More than one chapter div in one epub file?
A self-publishing author started his book with two epigraphs and a prologue. I originally formatted this as one file, putting the epigraphs at the top of the page (separated by blank lines). The ...
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