Now, with the recent innovations of OpenType Variable Fonts — pioneered in collaboration between Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Google, and others — and new standards allowing for developers to control font variations in CSS, things are about to change.
From building a miniature MMO entirely in HTML5, to making a game of Snake written entirely in CSS, it's an understandably fun and creative hobby to see how far one can bend a certain language.
If you prefer, you can just include a class name in the
In your CSS, you can use the following code to ensure that the hidden PageList and Landmarks nav elements will be invisible in most EPUB 2 reading systems, as well.
It may contain zero or more CSS Style Sheets, each of which must conform to the content requirements defined in CSS Style Sheets — Content Conformance [Content Docs 3.1].
The best way to handle these differences is with a special construction in the CSS file which will be used by KindleGen to make the needed changes in the file.
Think Typewriter — limit the styles that you add and don't worry about how the text looks in your Word file — the magic of design comes when formatting and applying the styles you want in the CSS..
Your novel, of course, would contain multiple heading and paragraph elements that may also include styling classes defined in your CSS or content style sheet.
The EPUB 3 CSS Profile includes @font - face rules and descriptors as defined in the CSS Fonts Module Level 3 [CSS3Fonts] specification, using syntax as defined in [CSS3Fonts - 20110324] and semantics as defined in [CSS3Fonts].
With exceptions for the direction and unicode - bidi properties as noted below, the EPUB 3 CSS Profile includes all of the features defined in the CSS Writing Modes Module Level 3 [CSS3WritingModes] specification using - epub - prefixed property names, syntax as defined in [CSS3WritingModes - 20110428] and semantics as defined in [CSS3WritingModes].
The EPUB 3 CSS Profile includes all of the features defined in the CSS Multi-column Layout Module [CSSMultiCol] specification with the exception of the column - span property.
I do certainly agree that InDesign is falling a little short at getting these features into the ePub directly; even a simple paragraph rule is not turned into a bottom - border in CSS — I hope that, one day, we won't need to dig in to the ePub at all!
Ibis Reader will load all of the CSS and probably ignore the media - query attribute in any style elements, though it would honor media query directives in the CSS itself.
Lots of discussion about getting clean export from InDesign; image zoom on devices; page - list construction within InDesign; dealing with an InDesign book for EPUB export; spec» ing color in CSS.
For both XHTML and SVG Content Documents, the dimension (viewport / viewbox) expressions define the CSS initial containing block (ICB) expressed in CSS Pixels [CSS].
First, given its location in the CSS section of the specification, it should be noted that this statement is only applicable to fixed - layout documents that utilize CSS.
Learn about the most useful properties to use in CSS for ebooks, and the rules that help you define the way a particular chunk of text or an image displays.
Apart from pointing to some very good Javascript typesetting libraries Joshua does a quick comparison of InDesign features vs. what is available in CSS and JS libs (at the time of writing).
I tried to avoid Joshua Tallent's Kindle Formatting book as a matter of principle, but he does a good job of explaining how images are processed and all the craptastic workarounds that are needed as a result of the quirky way it supports images and how it formats things in the html rather than in the CSS.
If I pull the ol, ul, li, tags out of the reset code in the CSS and do not declare anything for ol, ul, li (i.e. the default) it seems to work okay for MOBI.
To hide this they implemented code in their CSS for the sub that completely hid comments that they had removed so that the censorship itself was hidden.