Re: [docbook-apps] how to add a style attribute inside a P element? (Kindle insanity!)

[Nic Gibson <nicg@corbas.net>]

Hi Robert

I've been doing some of the same things you are doing here. I'm not convinced that are right about the Kindle indenting (I'm looking at some titles I worked on and we've used css classes for the indent and it's working just fine). 

For the width, I postprocess. I'm working on a set of scripts for a client at the moment that takes an EPUB and does some mappings for the Kindle. I may be able to make them available to you (the client is often happy for code written for them to be put into the public domain).

There is no reason why you couldn't do both the things you are discussing here using a customisation though. You could use a template that operates on role attributes perhaps.

nic

On 3 Aug 2011, at 12:47, Robert Nagle wrote:

> To add to my remarks:
> 
> one common Kindle formatting example is to output
> 
> to <p width=75"> or  <p width=-20">
> 
> so it would be nice if we could have a general way to add an attribute
> like "width" in some cases.
> 
> (I don't know if it would validate as XHTML though).
> 
> rj
> 
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Robert Nagle <idiotprogrammer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm outputting a lot of epub and frequently I need to massage the
>> output so that the epub can be converted into the Kindle format.
>> 
>> One inherent problem with kindlegen is that it strips out most CSS
>> code and instead adds some formatting attributes inside individual
>> elements.
>> 
>> One example. You cannot turn off indenting in Kindle unless you
>> hardcode something like <p style="text-indent:0">
>> 
>> So I do post-processing, I would have to do a global search and replace:
>> 
>>    Change <p class="no-indent"> to <p style="text-indent:0"> in all instances.
>>    Change <div class="caption"><p> to <div.caption><p
>> style="text-indent:0"> in all instances.
>>    Change <p class="pullquote"> to <p style="text-indent:0"> in all instances.
>> 
>> I wouldn't even know how to get started to do this in customization layer.
>> 
>> I've seen this discussion
>> http://markmail.org/search/?q=class.attribute&q=list%3Aorg.oasis-open.lists.docbook-apps#query:class.attribute%20list%3Aorg.oasis-open.lists.docbook-apps%20from%3A%22Bob%20Stayton%22+page:1+mid:7jfjygrqiz5pc7bs+state:results
>> where css.decoration is mentioned as well as custom class values
>> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HtmlCustomEx.html#CustomClassValues
>> 
>> I think the section on "custom class values" seems relevant, but I
>> can't follow the example.
>> 
>> YOu would need to add a custom attribute to these elements (style) as
>> well as values (text-indent:0).
>> 
>> Do you have an idea about how to attack this problem? Thanks.
>> 
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Nic Gibson
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