
hmonroe>I would appreciate some guidance on what adjustments would need to be made to the HTML produced by Guiguts to make it more amenable to conversion to epub format by epubmaker or otherwise. OK, please see my previous email. I don't really remember how to run guiguts but I installed it new and then I imported my last txt72 that I submitted to PG and autoginned HTML using guiguts and I found most of the classes of problems I described earlier. Putting my previous email even simpler: If you think about it a small say 3" wide machine has the visual space to do exactly ONE thing at a time, but via vertical scolling or page flips it, like all modern display devices it can essentially do an infinite number of things vertically. So if you want to make it "work" you have to stack visual elements vertically, not horizontally. So, on a small display device, and at any moment in time, speaking in terms of horizontal real-estate you only have space to do ONE of the following things on the display: a) Display a picture. b) Display a page number. c) Display left margin whitespace. d) Display right margin whitespace. e) Display a note [a "footnote" or what have you] OR g) Display the actual body text of the book that the customer might actually read. Now I'm not saying that a) though e) might not be interesting things to display on the customer's device. I'm just saying that if you want to display more than one of these things "at any moment of time" you have stack them vertically, not horizontally, or it just ain't going to work. Because the real-estate simply doesn't exist on the customer's device's display. Specific comments looking at the ginned HTML code: * Specifying left and right body margins doesn't work. * Specifying P top and bottom margins of .75em doesn't work. * position absolute doesn't work. * things of 0.5em don't work. * sidenotes don’t work. * smallcaps doesn't work on any machine I know of -- but its typically relatively harmless when they don't work. * float left doesn't work, and float right doesn't work. * margin-rights really don't work. * background colors typically don't work but when they don't work that's typically relatively harmless. * reliance on spans to move things right is probably not a good idea. Etc. I realize what I say will probably make you unhappy and you will probably go away mad without ever changing anything but, the reality remains: What you are trying to do is not going to work on small machines for the simple reason that, well, they are small. Which leaves PG in an interesting position.