Keeping an image and its caption on the same page is easy in standard ePubs using an inline-block. Kindle’s KF8 format does NOT keep elements inside an inline-block together when there’s just enough room for an image without the caption. Text is kicked to the next page. Kindle KF8 is not ePub The usual methods […]
Image plus Caption in ePub
An image and its caption (or short associated text) should be glued together on the same page. There’s an easy method for doing this in an ePub. Although it doesn’t work with Kindle KF8, it will serve you well in ePubs that you publish with iBooks or most other outlets. If you feed ePub files […]
Wrap Text around an Image
You can wrap text around a “floated” image in your eBook for Kindle devices that support KF8 formatting. For older Mobi7 Kindles that do not support floated elements, display the image in a centered div or paragraph. To float an element, such as an image or callout, you’ll need to create CSS styles for KF8 Kindles […]
Life after Sigil?
Since this post was written, Sigil has come back and is better than ever! Yay! Sigil, my ePub editor of choice, is no longer being developed. The last version still works great for ePub2 editing—clean code, no bloat, effortless file management, previews, metadata support, validation, and elegant design—but going forward to ePub3, its useful life […]
Going Swimmingly?
If you’re here, your Word to ePub to Kindle conversion is probably not gliding along like a water bird on a placid lake. Unless you have a simply-formatted manuscript and HTML code makes you hyperventilate, submitting a Word document directly to Amazon KDP is asking for trouble. Some credible people disagree, but it’s my story […]
Word to ePub Tutorial
The tutorial on making an ePub from a Word manuscript is in 4 parts: Word to ePub – 1: Introduction Word to ePub – 2: Preparing a Word Document Word to ePub – 3: Clean up Filtered HTML Word to ePub – 4: XHTML to ePub with Sigil
Word to ePub – 1: Introduction
Make your self-published books available to a wide audience by publishing to Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Apple iTunes. Most popular eReaders support the ePub format. Amazon is the exception, but perhaps, not for long. iPad users can read Nook books from B&N and Kindle books from Amazon by installing their eReader applications. Simply-formatted books […]
Word to ePub – 2: Preparing a Word document
For ePub or Kindle production, the ideal Word document has simple styles, consistency in their usage, and no formatting that disappears after conversion, such as tabs, Word’s text boxes, and running headers and footers. Why? Because the source files for an ePub are formatted with XHTML (extensible hypertext markup language), a strict XML version of […]
Word to ePub – 3: Clean up Filtered HTML
Word’s Filtered HTML is not like pure filtered water. It’s better than unfiltered HTML, in that Word-specific information is discarded, but there’s a lot of icky stuff floating around in the pot that can drag down your efforts to create a clean and valid ePub. Attention to detail will prevent it from blowing up in […]
Word to ePub – 4: XHTML to ePub with Sigil
While you can create and package an ePub manually, Sigil is a simple but powerful ePub editor that will save you time. It can open your (X)HTML file and help you turn it into a valid ePub, or let you revise an existing ePub. Download links Sigil Sigil User Guide (HTML) (ePub) Sigil Manual (Advanced Users) […]