Comments on: Backwards Compatible Poetry for KF8/Mobi http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/backwards-compatible-poetry-for-kf8mobi/ news & opinions from the world of ebooks Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:42:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Joshua http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/backwards-compatible-poetry-for-kf8mobi/#comment-187 Joshua Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:42:27 +0000 http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/?p=9#comment-187 John, the issue is that the Mobipocket format does not support that CSS, it requires that the width attribute, which is not really HTML, be used for hanging indents. This is, however, not much of an issue any more since the vast majority of devices in the Kindle system now support KF8.

]]> By: John http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/backwards-compatible-poetry-for-kf8mobi/#comment-185 John Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:38:00 +0000 http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/?p=9#comment-185 “The Mobi-only CSS uses the negative text-indent to emulate the width attribute, and the KF8 CSS hides the non-breaking spaces and uses the standard CSS approach to hanging indents (negative text-indent, positive margin-left).”

If the mobly-only CSS is just emulating the width attribute, why not just use the width attribute in the CSS rather than the negatie text-indent?

ie.

@media amzn-mobi {
p.poem1 {
width: -30px;
}

]]> By: Dylan Kinnett http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/backwards-compatible-poetry-for-kf8mobi/#comment-155 Dylan Kinnett Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:58:04 +0000 http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/?p=9#comment-155 This is a minor point, but I’ve always wondered about the semantics of wrapping a single line of poetry in a paragraph tag. Why not use the paragraph tag for a stanza, and line breaks for line breaks? I wonder what others think about this.

]]> By: Joshua http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/backwards-compatible-poetry-for-kf8mobi/#comment-36 Joshua Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:24:11 +0000 http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/?p=9#comment-36 Sorry, Dan. I have been very busy, but will do my best to write one up soon.

]]> By: Dan http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/backwards-compatible-poetry-for-kf8mobi/#comment-35 Dan Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:11:36 +0000 http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/?p=9#comment-35 Love your podcast, but your blog is seriously lacking, dudes. 1 post???

]]> By: Andy Severn http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/backwards-compatible-poetry-for-kf8mobi/#comment-34 Andy Severn Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:08:53 +0000 http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/?p=9#comment-34 (D’oh! Please ignore my last comment – just delete)
Found out what was wrong…

Andy

]]> By: Joshua http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/backwards-compatible-poetry-for-kf8mobi/#comment-33 Joshua Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:25:23 +0000 http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/?p=9#comment-33 Andy,

I just tested it again and did not see any issues. If you email me your code I will take a quick look at it.

joshua [at] ebookarchitects.com

]]> By: Andy Severn http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/backwards-compatible-poetry-for-kf8mobi/#comment-32 Andy Severn Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:32:53 +0000 http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/?p=9#comment-32 Joshua,
I’ve just tried exactly what you described above, (and some variants by other people) but it simply won’t work on the new Kindle previewer and building with KindleGen 2.4 Have they removed the negative text-indent?

]]> By: Diane Kistner http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/backwards-compatible-poetry-for-kf8mobi/#comment-31 Diane Kistner Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:37:29 +0000 http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/?p=9#comment-31 I knew there was a reason I was putting off coding all of our FutureCycle Press ebook versions for 2011 and 2012. I would have had a mess without this strategy. Excellent work, Joshua, as always. Poets, poetry publishers, and readers of poetry everywhere owe you a heap of thanks!

]]> By: ePUBSecrets » Blog Archive » Formatting Poetry in ePUB: Part 1 http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/backwards-compatible-poetry-for-kf8mobi/#comment-5 ePUBSecrets » Blog Archive » Formatting Poetry in ePUB: Part 1 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:09:36 +0000 http://ebookarchitects.com/blog/?p=9#comment-5 [...] Kindle Formatting. Joshua Tallent also has a post on this at his new eBook Architects Blog titled “Backwards Compatible Poetry for KF8/Mobi.” In this post, Tallent shows you how to use media queries and CSS to apply the old negative [...]

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