Re: how to add a style attribute inside a P element? (Kindle insanity!)

[Robert Nagle <idiotprogrammer@gmail.com>]

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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