I’m designing an eBook/Mobi and wanted to have two different text layouts:
(a) typical text for the story: indented, no space between paragraphs, etc.
(b) a text layout for the back matter that isn’t indented and has a line between paragraphs
For some reason I don’t seem to be able to achieve this – I’ve created two section types, created a style for the back matter text in the ‘Styles’ pane, but this hasn’t generated the desired outcome.
Where, or how, should I do this? (If it can be done, which I imagine it can!)
Styles and section types are two different things. If you applied the “Back Matter” style to all of the text in your back matter, then you would get the result you desire. However, the better way would be to use Section Layouts. When you Compile, Section Layouts override the formatting in your text. You assign different Section Layouts to Section Types in your project. So you would create a new Section Layout in your Compile Format for “Back Matter”, and assign this Section Layout to your back matter Section Type. (Please see the section on Compile in the tutorial for details on how this is done, or the video tutorials on our Learn & Support page.)
I’ve been using the Section Layouts to assign the ‘Back Matter’ a style; but inside the formatting area I can’t change the text layout from the one created for ‘scenes’ in the CSS section. I even tried using custom CSS to remove the indentation from the ‘Back Matter’ elements, but for whatever reason this didn’t stick.
Steps I took:
Created ‘Section Types’ in ‘Project Settings’.
Within Compile ‘Formatting’ area (can’t recall what this is called; it’s the area for HTML, CSS, etc.) add the Section Types as required.
Assign necessary Section Types in ‘Section layouts’ area.
(I named the Section Layouts and Types the same thing for easier assignment.)
I know it’s something I’m missing or not understanding, but the videos only really talk about PDF creation which is necessarily a whole lot easier than the Mobi/eBook set up.