Re: Sony misreading epub layout of poetry - how do I solve it?

Thank you Russ. I had started [re-started, but not realised how rusty I 
am on coding] thinking that display:table  was appropriate, and then 
directed myself to padding. Your words got me to rethink. While I know 
it is just short of impossible to put this for equal presentatin in all 
readers, I am keen to need only one epub file!

You will have seen Lee's answer to me, and that shoots me forward to 
getting the basics better in my mind. In fact I am thinking of seeing if 
he'll let me forward his answer to all those helping.

Joseph

On 17/05/2011 17:36, Russel Davis wrote:
> On 5/16/11, joseph harris<[email protected]>  wrote:
>    
>> Sony [which uses Digital Editions from Adobe] is failing to get the
>> detail right. This involves css instructions for line positions. Almost
>> every other line needs to be indented, but they are showing up as all at
>> the left margin. Does anyone know what the difference is in
>> interpretation that is causing this? Does Sony use different details in
>> css; or is it more limited in what it can recognise?  There seems to be
>> a similar problem with Kobo.
>>
>>
>>      
> Joseph,
>
> I have a Sony eReader, and yes indeed just about everything shows up a
> but different in the Sony as opposed to other readers. For instance,
> if the text is fully justified it will end up ragged right. Centering
> is honored as is paragraph indent. But just about everything else
> requires some really tricky tap-dancing to get it to display right.
>
> That's the bad news. However, there is good news as well. If you want
> things to end up, as a lot of poetry does, sitting just so on the line
> start along the line you want a placement for needs to be defined by
> the left margin. Assuming you are using something like MS-Word you
> would then have the left indent for that line moved in the 1/4", 1/2",
> 1" or whatever suits your fancy. Setting this up as such in MS-Word
> and using a conversion program such as Calibre will show how it
> handles all of these little idiosyncrasies. And more good news... If
> it works in the Sony, it's a good bet it will work on just about any
> other reader as well. Sony's eReader is kind of the lowest common
> denominator.
>
> While this is time consuming and does not resolve the justification
> issue it does provide satisfactory results. The Sony eReaders were
> originally tuned for the BBeB format and there is a fairly close
> approximation to ePub so that, my thoughts anyway, they have
> implemented the use of ePub but not fully engaged it.
>
>    


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