[oXygen-user] FW: Custom CSS for EPUB and Kindle

Khaled Aly
Mon Oct 6 12:49:19 CDT 2014


Hi Radu

Thanks for specifying the parameter names to be edited. If I refer to
WebHelp for e.g., regardless of the very nice Skin builder, you've made it
possible to start from a default CSS sheet rather than developing one from
scratch.

So, realizing that the same facility isn't available for EPUB & Kindle, I
was wondering of the location of the default CSS that is used to produce
default output; so that to make a copy of it and incrementally make desired
adjustments and/or additions.

Bets regards,
Khaled

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Hi Khaled,

Both the EPUB and Kindle formats are a bunch of HTML documents inside an
archive container.

You should create a custom CSS and then edit the transformation scenario,
specify in the Parameters list the "args.copycss" parameter to "yes" and the
"args.css" to the path to your custom CSS.

To know what CSS selectors to add to your custom CSS:

After you publish to EPUB you can un-pack the EPUB archive using a free
utility like 7-ZIP and open one of those output HTML documents to look
inside it. For each significant HTML element you will have a @class
attribute which contains several values, attribute which comes from the
@class attributes of the original DITA content. You can then match based on
those class attributes various HTML elements and style them accordingly.

Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
<oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 10/5/2014 10:24 PM, Khaled Aly wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can we advise aboutthe best practices for pre-transform CSS 
> customization forEPUB and Kindleoutputs, starting with oXygen'sdefault 
> stylesheet?
>
> Thanks & regards,
>
> Khaled
>
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