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Sigil first line indents
Hi there. i have an ebook complete and it looks great in Kindle previewer online and on Kindle previewer 3 for mac. However on the kindle mobile app the first line of each chapter is indented and after each text break. like I said looks fine elsewhere except first line indent issue on the kindle app. there is 92 chapters so any quick fix?
here's a sample below: (Ebook was created in Quarkxpress 2021 and cleaned up in Sigil) <div class="page" id="section6"><div id="box1"><p id="box1_0" class="para-Normal-Local-18"><span class="char-Normal-Local-24">1</span><span class="char-Normal-Local-18"><br/></span></p> <p id="box1_2" class="para-Normal-Local-5"><span class="char-Normal-Local-18"><br/></span></p> <p id="box1_3" class="para-Normal-Local-5"><span class="char-Normal-Local-18">(DON'T WANT INDENT HERE!!)The panic attack started in the shower. Jo was combing conditioner through her hair when the dread crept up and dealt a buckling punch to her gut. She crashed out of the bathroom and collapsed on the landing. She lay there, naked, shaking, fighting a body hellbent on extinguishing itself. Her lungs had the capacity of squeezed teabags, her limbs were being incinerated from within, her heart seemed intent on cracking open her sternum.<br/></span></p> |
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This doesn’t really have anything to do with Sigil, but…
I would look in the style definition for: para-Normal-Local-5 And char-Normal-Local-18 To see if it has a text-indent in there. I would also get rid of the <br/> before the </p> at the end of the paragraph. Not needed and it is probably unwanted for the majority of readers. |
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Named styles are ever so much easier to handle. This is my style for the "first" paragraph in a chapter or section:
p.first { margin-top:0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.0em; text-indent:0.0em; text-align:justify; } It's evoked of course by going <p class="first"> My style sheet can be seen at notjohnkdp.blogspot.com (posted in 2013 but often updated). |
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h2 [ font-weight: bold; text-align: center; text-indent: 0; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; } .noindent { text-indent: 0; } Last edited by JSWolf; 07-05-2022 at 04:41 AM. |
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body { widows: 1; orphans: 1; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; text-align: justify; } h2 [ font-weight: bold; text-align: center; text-indent: 0; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; } p { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-indent: 1.2em; } .noindent { text-indent: 0; } <h2>1</h2> <p class="noindent">The panic attack started in the shower. Jo was combing conditioner through her hair when the dread crept up and dealt a buckling punch to her gut. She crashed out of the bathroom and collapsed on the landing. She lay there, naked, shaking, fighting a body hellbent on extinguishing itself. Her lungs had the capacity of squeezed teabags, her limbs were being incinerated from within, her heart seemed intent on cracking open her sternum.</p> Last edited by JSWolf; 07-05-2022 at 04:39 AM. |
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Jon, can you please just add something to the thread - anything that furthers answering the OPs question…
Try not to put your opinions out there as some kind of requirement. There was nothing wrong with Notjohn’s post. It IS good to have styles with names you can easily understand: like “first” for the first paragraph…. And an example of how he style’s it… and how to call it… all good. Just because I don’t like using justify doesn’t make it wrong. Similarly, it isn’t required to put 0.0em - its extra precise when a simple 0 can be used (no units needed for zero, since it’s still zero in any unit) - but it isn’t “wrong”. When you say it is wrong you are just injecting confusion to a conversation where the OP is obviously seeking help with the basics. |
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Even though I agree with you (mostly) about the spacing for the header being in the CSS. You don't have to push your own preferences - which you were doing by telling Notjohn he was wrong and providing your own techniques (which, OBTW, are not all good either). Just because you don't like how someone else does it, doesn't make it wrong. Saying it's "wrong" on a thread where someone is asking for help on indents on the first line of each chapter, when it's just not the way you do it, just confuses people. That's not being helpful. If an experienced OP came on here and said: "I'm having a problem with implementing yadda, yadda, yadda. Does anyone have alternate techniques I can try?" then you could go all out with your different techniques... But when they are asking "what letter comes after 'B' in the English language" going off on a tangent telling them how you can draw a cuneiform 'C' that's rotated 17 degrees, dropcapped, and 1.23456 times the normal height of the letters 'h' and "p" does NOT help the OP. |
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I did go back and edit my posts to tone down some of the language. But as to the OP's question, the code I posted does answer the question about the indents that are not wanted.
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