10-09-2016, 10:00 AM | #1 |
Browser
Posts: 745
Karma: 578294
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Australia
Device: Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura HD
|
Wrangling columns (as tables)
I'm trying to format some language texts that require some sections in 2 or 3 parallel columns. It seems to me the best way to do this is in tables (as opposed to embedded images). But how do I format these?
Ideally, in any one table the columns should be of equal width. I can achieve this if the table is the full width of the screen; but suppose I want to make the left and right edges of the table align with the margins of the paragraphs of text above and blow the table? For instance, a margin of 2 em on both sides? Once I apply margins, what usually happens is that the left margin is suddenly ignored, and the table runs the expected width but is up against the left edge of the screen, *or* for some strange reason, the left margin of the table is recognised but the right-hand border of the table suddenly stretches further than it should and off the right edge of the screen. Obviously I've got the code wrong, or is this just not possible in epub2? (I have no experience of epub3 yet.) I'd appreciate any help on this. Thanks! |
10-09-2016, 04:11 PM | #2 | ||
Wizard
Posts: 2,297
Karma: 12126329
Join Date: Jul 2012
Device: Kobo Forma, Nook
|
Quote:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=235365 Three columns of text, there is just no way to do this well in ebooks. The devices are too thin and the font size can get too large. Quote:
Last edited by Tex2002ans; 10-09-2016 at 04:13 PM. |
||
Advert | |
|
10-09-2016, 04:33 PM | #3 |
Browser
Posts: 745
Karma: 578294
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Australia
Device: Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura HD
|
a) what I'm asking here is different
b) there weren't any solutions arrived at, as far as I could see, that would work in an ADE-based e.ink (n this case, a Kobo Aura HD) c) I thought it was frowned on to resurrect a thread more than a year or so old; I've seen people advised to start a new conversation d) rather than ask people to wade through several pages of what'd been said already, I thought it was simpler to ask anew. Guess I was wrong. |
10-09-2016, 07:57 PM | #4 |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 11,470
Karma: 13095790
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Grass Valley, CA
Device: EB 1150, EZ Reader, Literati, iPad 2 & Air 2, iPhone 7
|
There is a wiki page called table that has some advice to tables. How are you applying the margins? CSS?
Dale Last edited by DaleDe; 10-09-2016 at 08:02 PM. |
10-12-2016, 07:50 AM | #5 | |
Wizard
Posts: 1,563
Karma: 7043711
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Rosario - Santa Fe - Argentina
Device: Kindle 4 NT
|
Quote:
Regards Rubén |
|
Advert | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Using Tables? | Narrator | Conversion | 5 | 04-27-2016 07:37 PM |
Tables not looking just right | oiver55 | Sigil | 4 | 08-27-2015 07:51 AM |
Tables | Ephemerality314 | Development | 2 | 08-18-2015 11:34 PM |
Wrangling covers for ePub | MacEachaidh | ePub | 20 | 12-02-2013 12:12 PM |
Need help with tables | Daithi | Amazon Kindle | 2 | 12-09-2008 02:10 PM |