Unanswered Questions
16 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Return links for Table of Contents list and in-book headings
I'm using Notepad++ to format my first novel in HTML before converting it to MOBI and/or ePUB.
I've done the code to make the items on my Table of Contents into live links and they all take me to ...
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Formatting word for kindle
I've written a book and uploaded it to Kindle. I have two books available already and formatted them without issue. This time, Kindle Preview looked fine. When the book went live, I checked it on my ...
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Setting default ePub font in iBooks
I acquired a sample epub file from a client to use as a template for new epub files. When I open this file in iBooks (v 1.0.1), the paragraph text by default has the font Iowan, and the style ...
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Change eBook font doesn't change font for ordered/unordered lists
I've created an ePUB with fonts exported so that when viewed on "Original" (eg in iBooks), you see the same font as the paperback edition of the book. But if you change the font in iBooks (...
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Adding a background image in Calibre
To get a background image in Calibre, I gather that I need to open a book and right click. This will expose a menu. Choosing "Preferences" >> "Styles" opens a GUI to change ...
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Code block formatting in KDP
I am planning to create an ebook and publish on Amazon (kdp) format. However,When I converted my rough copy to kdp . The code formatting was not up to the mark . What is the best way to include code ...
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how to read code part of technical book on kobo
I have many technical ebooks with coding examples but it's unreadable because there's no scrollbar and many lines are longer than my ebook screen.
I have tried to change it in an open ebook by adding ...
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How well does Google Play Books support page-oriented css? (i.e., page breaks)
While testing ebooks, I have been finding deficiencies in css support in Google Play Books.
Namely, this doesn't work:
h2 {
page-break-before: always;
}
GPB's support for embedded ...
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Ebook epub3 on Kindle Reader iOS iPhone is overriding CSS with ugly indented formatting?
I have an epub I've hand coded that looks great in Kindle Previewer, iBooks, and Kindle Reader for iPad, and physical Kindles. However, on iPhone, it is gettting rid of the CSS formatting I've ...
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Removing white background from linked images
My first epub looks fine when viewed in iBooks, but it has a problem in Kindle.
Hyperlinked home page icons have a white background. So a triangular image just looks like a big white square.
I added ...
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Need a Workaround for CSS Overrides
I'm working on an epub in Sigil. Things are going pretty good, but I'm puzzled by some kind of CSS bug.
For example, I want all the fonts in the table of contents section to be sans-serif. So I put ...
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landscape orientation in ereaders: css for both 1 and 2 page layout?
I'm trying to write css media queries for landscape and portrait orientations.
With widths of 1024 pix and wider, you think that 1024 pixels is enough to have 2 columns instead of 1.
But does any ...
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Extending images to edges of screen (bleed) with CSS to Kindle
Kindle Create has a new feature called "image bleed". It extends an image past the left and right margins by placing it on the edge. I'm wondering how to reproduce it, is there a way to ...
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Convert fixed layout azw3 file, to pdf first or other formats if not possible, with all formatting intact
I have an azw3 as described above. It can be converted into epub, using the extension from Calibre "Kindle Unpack", but there are no paragraphs, meaning that the all the words in the txt ...
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Is there an equivalent of TeX's \hfill in CSS?
Subject says it all. I know that I can use float:left and float:right, but this does not work if the combined lenght of texts is more than a line. I would like to have some text anchored to the left ...
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