Line numbers mutilated

[dan2the6th]

I have a copy of The Iliad, translated by Richmond Lattimore. EPUB format. The text is in verse, and there are line numbers every five lines, as is somewhat common in works like this. The trouble is that once the line numbers reach three digits, they get cut off at the left margin. I've uploaded a screen shot. Those numbers are supposed to be 135, 140, 145, etc. Is there any way I can make this work, or is this book just poorly formatted? Thanks.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by dan2the6th

I have a copy of The Iliad, translated by Richmond Lattimore. EPUB format. The text is in verse, and there are line numbers every five lines, as is somewhat common in works like this. The trouble is that once the line numbers reach three digits, they get cut off at the left margin. I've uploaded a screen shot. Those numbers are supposed to be 135, 140, 145, etc. Is there any way I can make this work, or is this book just poorly formatted? Thanks.

It's very poorly formatted. The problem is that you cannot do line numbers line that and not have line breaks in the middle of the paragraph. Also, depending on the text size, the line numbers could be off. So just edit the book to dump the line numbers as they cannot work properly and still be properly formatted. If I needed a large enough font size, the line numbers would be incorrect.

[kovidgoyal]

You can probably tweak the CSS of the book to fix it, but cant say how without seeing the actual book.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You can probably tweak the CSS of the book to fix it, but cant say how without seeing the actual book.

I cannot see a way to fix it as the line numbers that do not start at the beginning of a paragraph will need to have lines split. That and large enough text will cause the line numbers to be wrong.

[theducks]

You might try making the line number font-size smaller (~85%)
You may need to wrap them in a span, with appropriate CSS callout

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by theducks

You might try making the line number font-size smaller (~85%)
You may need to wrap them in a span, with appropriate CSS callout

Do you see this actually working correctly?

[dan2the6th]

I thought of just removing the line numbers, since I don't really care about them, but it looks like it would be one-at-a-time tedious work.

I tried tinkering with the CSS (at which I am NOT an expert) and I kept introducing other problems, so I gave up on that approach.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Do you see this actually working correctly?

Why not. I don't have a sample of the file to play with.
I am assuming this is just a case of running out of space for the hanging indent.

Years ago, I made my Body font 1.2em and a margin-right:16pt to give room for 3 digits of ADE # on my EZReader

[theducks]

Originally Posted by dan2the6th

I thought of just removing the line numbers, since I don't really care about them, but it looks like it would be one-at-a-time tedious work.

I tried tinkering with the CSS (at which I am NOT an expert) and I kept introducing other problems, so I gave up on that approach.

Regex might work to find the numbers (I assumed the start with a period and end with a space)

\.\d+\s

But you probably want to then kill the outdent. for that you need to adjust the CSS for that paragraphs class (Hint: paste that part of the CSS and we can suggest)