windymilla
commented
2 years ago Not having an IOS-based device, I can't test this directly. I did rename the epub3 to
scott-images-epub3.zip and looked inside. The 1.css file looks correct, including the following CSS:
.x-ebookmaker .poetry-container.w25 {
text-align: center;
width: 30em
}The file 4704623872810410155_scott-24.html.xhtml which contains an example of poetry using the above w25 class also looks correct. It has the x-ebookmaker class on the <body>.
Given that it works correctly on other readers, it looks like the bug might be in Kindle for IOS, since the same ebookmaker output is being used on those devices. To check I understand correctly, it seems that it fails when the CSS selector uses the "is a descendant of" mechanism?
One way to test this further would be to add a div around the bit of poetry at line 4357:
<div class="x-ebookmaker">
<div class="poetry-container w25">
<div class="poetry">
<div class="stanza">
<div class="verse indent0">‘Washed their fair garments in the days of peace.’</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>Check if that works.
Then, change that added div line at 4357 to
<div class="mytestclass">and edit line 294 to be
.mytestclass .poetry-container.w25 {text-align: center; width: 30em;}If that still fails, it shows that it is not related to the x-ebookmaker class.
eshellman
charliehoward4dp
The attached zip contains an html file and associated image folder that works properly with most ereaders, including with the Kindle Previewer 3 app on Windows, but does not work properly with the Kindle for IOS app on an iphone or ipad. A small change to the css allows it to work with most ereaders, including Kindle for IOS. The change is to remove ".x-ebookmaker " from lines 294-301.
Those css lines are intended to approximately center poetry blocks on epub readers, and they do that successfully on most ereaders, including the Kindle Previewer 3 app on Windows.
The problem is that, on the most recent Kindle for IOS app, those poetry blocks are not displayed at all. Instead, there are several blank lines where the poetry should be.
However, if ".x-ebookmaker " is removed from lines 294-301, the generated epub3 DOES display the poetry blocks on all ereaders, including Kindle for IOS.
The drawback to not using .x-ebookmaker on those lines is that the poetry blocks will not be centered as well in Browsers as they are when inline-blocks are used.
Although inline-blocks work surprisingly well with many ereaders, that cannot be used with certain eReaders: Nook discards any part of an ILB that doesn't fit on the page where the block begins, while Amazon's send-to-Kindle and Kindle Previewer 3 flatly reject them as invalid files.
The epub/mobis I've been using were created by the version 0.12.14 of eBookMaker, which is supplied with the latest test version of Guiguts (1.5.0-test9).
scott.zip