The Random Ebooks Questions Post

[elf]

Ask your questions! Get answers! Maybe even useful answers!

Ask anything! Ask about ereaders, or filetypes, or conversion methods, or where to find books, or which authors don't like ebooks, or what software works on which computers, or anything else ebook-related. Preferably, put the question, or part of it, in the subject line. That way, the questions will be easy to find, and new readers who show up can see if their question has been asked before.

Feel free to post links to your journal where you've spelled out your questions in detail (or just make a new post here; it's totally fine to make a long post about "thinking about ebook readers; what's the pros & cons of these two?")

Answer questions! If you know about a certain aspect of ebookery, jump in with answers!

Comments

Re: AO3 bug with epub files?

[valiha]

Just have in mind that if you want all of them to be centered, then all should be combined. Then you can "cascade down" and specify the style for only some elements:

All should be centered = h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {text-align: center}
The first three should be centered + uppercase = h1, h2, h3 {text-transform: uppercase}
The first one should be centered + uppercase + have a bottom border = h1 {border-bottom: solid 1px}

The styles listed first are general, and get more specific the lower you go. The general styles are applied to all the elements unless you override them; so if you don't want h4-6 to be centered, you can leave them out of the first declaration, or override it by adding one more line after h1:

h4, h5, h6 {text-align: left}

I mostly used online tutorials too, but the people at LJ's Smooth Sailing Layout comm helped me a lot while I was modifying my layout. It makes a huge difference when you can ask someone to walk you through the reasons why something is just so. The Web Developer addon for Firefox is priceless too.

Re: AO3 bug with epub files?

[amalthia]

Most of my css help has come from the Mobile Read forums. :) I'm going to have to find this web developer addon and check out the LJ smooth sailing layout comm. :)

You're right it does help to have someone to help explain things because the tutorials don't always go into great depth as to why css works a certain way and piecing it all together is not easy.

Re: AO3 bug with epub files?

[valiha]

Link to Smooth Sailing in an entry above, and Web Developer here! Once added to Firefox, you just click on CSS, then on View style information, then hover over an element on the page. When you click on that, an information window at the bottom of the browser shows you all the details about what css was used for which page element.

Re: AO3 bug with epub files?

[amalthia]

Thanks! This sounds incredibly useful. :)