Suggestion / wild idea about webtoepub HOT 11 CLOSED

The problem is less about building the epubs and more about filtering certain problems that appear on some pages within baka-tsuki that may cause issues with certain readers.

We already know the common formats for an epub in fact i was the one who suggested we adopt the more common format (we made slight changes to prevent issues on some OS cough_windows_cough)

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@typhoon71
Not a bad suggestion. The problem is finding what really are "well formatted epubs".
What would also be useful is a list of what changes you need to manually make to the epubs that WebToEpub generates? Then I can look at automating that. Similar to Belldandu's comment, what are the "oddball cases" we run into on Baka-Tsuki?

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I think the extension is doing pretty great. Just need to fix a few errors here and there and it will work almost perfectly with Baka-Tsuki. Not sure about other sites, since there haven't been any feedback from their users for a while...
As for formatting, I'd suggest adding a few more rules in the default stylesheet. (I can help with that if you decide to do that).

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@toshiya44

I'd suggest adding a few more rules in the default stylesheet. (I can help with that if you decide to do that).

Someone already sent me some suggestions. However, I seem to have mislaid them. If that was you, I apologise. That said, sure, please post your recommendations. Note: I don't promise to include them, but I will give them serious consideration.

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This is the general css I throw in for epubs made from BT pages.
(Apparently I can't upload css files, so saved it as text)
stylesheet.txt

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You can do it like this, I think.

/*Style for svg images. I got this from BTE-Gen epunbs. Works nicely.*/
div.svg_outer {
  display: block;
  margin-bottom: 0;
  margin-left: 0;
  margin-right: 0;
  margin-top: 0;
  padding-bottom: 0;
  padding-left: 0;
  padding-right: 0;
  padding-top: 0;
  text-align: left;
}
div.svg_inner {
  display: block;
  text-align: center;
}

/*Centered headings and some margin to make sure it's not too close to the content.*/
h1, h2 {
  text-align: center;
  page-break-before: always;
  margin-bottom: 10%;
  margin-top: 10%;
}
h3, h4, h5, h6 {
  text-align: center;
  margin-bottom: 15%;
  margin-top: 10%;
}

/*Style for lists. Calibre sometimes has issues with the placement of lists, this fixes it.*/
ol, ul {
  padding-left: 8%;
}

/*In case there are images in img tags. It's up to you.*/
img {
  display: block;
  max-height: 100%;
  max-width: 100%;
  padding-bottom: 0;
  padding-left: 0;
  padding-right: 0;
  padding-top: 0;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-bottom: 2%;
  margin-top: 2%;
}

/* To make hr tags more visible. BT doesn't use them very often but other sites might.*/
hr {
  color: black;
  background-color: black;
  height: 2px;
}

/*Styling all links.*/
a:link {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #0B0080;
}
a:visited {
  text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
  text-decoration: underline;
}
a:active {
  text-decoration: underline;
}

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Well there is one issue @dteviot when i tried to place everything in OEBPS/Styles/stylesheet.css and then include that file everywhere i got some annoying complaints from epubcheck about the link tag not being allowed (not sure if this is still a problem or not since the dirty hack for doctype was implemented).

I will be looking into it tomorrow though.

EDIT:

I also tried this before too <?xml-stylesheet href="../Style/style.css" type="text/css"?> while epubcheck didn't complain NONE of the epub readers including calibre understood this (which means lots of bug reports are needed for all epub readers about this).

Literally all the readers ignored the stylesheet

EDIT 2: After looking i noticed that you already added the link tag in so i guess its now just a matter of checking if epubcheck complains.

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epubcheck likes it now :D

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@toshiya44
You've probably noticed, but in case you haven't, the default Stylesheet now uses the settings you've suggested.

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Yup, I've noticed :D

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I now run epubcheck against output to check for issues.
And stylesheet has been added.
So closing.

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