Hi Bob and Robert,
Things get curiouser and curiouser:-). It looks like kindlegen does pretty much
the same conversion as the previewer.
When I use the kindle app on my Macbook, the variable lists (i.e., dl lists) do
not nest, but when I run the same file on the previewer, of in the app on my
iphone, it works fine.
So, the problem may be viewer specific. The only difference is that kindlegen
complains about this and provides false notes about closing off tags, while the
previewer is silent.
Bob, can you post or send me your modification of autoidx.xsl? I’d like to try
it out, and I’m glad to be a tester. And does this index generate page number
Best regards,
Dick
P.S. I’m going to get Solar Dividends, too. The topic is interesting, and I’d
like to see the results of that autoidx.xsl. Thanks for making it available as
a free ebook.
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> On Mar 20, 2020, at 09:13, Bob Stayton wrote:
>
> The index in my Power Shift ebook does not use dl, dt, and dd in the epub
> xhtml. I gave up on them and rewrote autoidx.xsl to output div elements
> instead, with CSS to supply the indents. In a nutshell:
>
> became
>
> became
>
> became
>
> That's it. Since the divs are already nested by the indexing templates, it
> turns out that the only CSS I needed was:
>
> div.dd {
> margin-left: 2em;
> }
>
> I had intended to fold this back into the next release, so thanks for
> reminding me about this.
>
> By the way, if you liked Power Shift, you should check out my new book Solar
> Dividends which describes how to use solar energy to eliminate poverty in the
> world.
> Bob Stayton
>
> b...@sagehill.net
> On 3/19/2020 9:16 PM, Robert Nagle wrote:
>> This is very interesting to me. I have tried for two projects to generate
>> indexes that would work on Kindle. The indexterm content had both a primary
>> and secondary level. Everything would look good in epubs on epub reading
>> systems(and be valid, etc), but in mobipocket it would render inconsistently
>> the elements in the index -- sometimes indenting, sometimes putting them on
>> the same line. It was a mess. Even though it rendered fine in Kindle
>> Previewer on all simulated devices, the dl, dt, dd just scrambled everything
>> on Kindle app for android as well as on e-ink Paperwhites.
>>
>> I spent a lot of time trying to troubleshoot (and the details were fuzzy),
>> but concluded that the problem lay not with docbook but with kindlegen (or
>> maybe the css support on kindle reading systems). It's frustrating because
>> having a good multilevel index is standard on many nonfiction ebooks.
>>
>> On the other hand, when looking at Bob's POWER SHIFT ebook (which came out a
>> few years ago), the index rendered fine on Kindle. - although in that ebook,
>> it used page numbers for an ebook.
>>
>> (In my projects, I used > select="1"> and > select="0"> )
>> (I could provide an ebook example if you need)
>>
>> BTW, never got around to saying it, but Bob I enjoyed Power Shift ebook
>>
>> Robert Nagle
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Richard Hamilton
>> To: Lars Vogel
>> Cc: Jason Zech , DocBook Apps
>>
>> Bcc:
>> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:42:50 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Converting Docbook epub to Kindle shows warnings
>> Hi Lars,
>>
>> I know this is from a long time ago, but I just ran into the same problem
>> with a file that nests variable lists using the list-presentation=“blocks”
>> processing instruction.
>>
>> In that case, the XHTML5 (this is with 1.79.2, building an epub3) is valid,
>> but kindlegen doesn’t like the nesting. It closes off the highest level
>> and elements and flags some elements as being invalid.
>>
>> The result doesn’t lose any content, but it removes the nesting and flattens
>> everything to one level.
>>
>> As with your case, the epub is valid and when displayed, the nesting is fine.
>>
>> At this point, I’m convinced that the problem is in kindlegen. I just used
>> the Kindle previewer, which wasn’t available in 2012, and it created a .mobi
>> file that preserves the nesting (at least on the devices I tried in the
>> previewer).
>>
>> Anyway, this is probably way to late to help, but I figured I’d add it to
>> the thread in case someone runs into it in the future, since it is still a
>> problem using kindlegen.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Dick Hamilton
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