Does anyone know e-book formatting? Especially for poetry?

[rachelmanija]

I am trying to release a collection of stories and poetry, and I'm having huge problems formatting.

Everything looks correct in the doc. But when I upload it to Kindle, there are incorrect indentations in the poetry - indents where there shouldn't be indents. There are also a couple places where I can't get the title to center. One afterword has line breaks between paragraphs, when it shouldn't. And if a poetry line has to wrap around due to screen size, I want it to wrap to the same margin as the rest of the poem. Instead, it wraps to a shorter margin, which looks weird.

Also, while I have constructed a working table of contents on Kindle, I can't figure out how to do so for BN.

I can't figure out how to fix this. The errors don't appear in "reveal formatting." If anyone would like to take a look at this and advise, please email or PM me.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

I'm willing to take a look but am not an expert. One thing I'd suggest is looking at the file in http://code.google.com/p/sigil/, if you haven't already.

ETA Ah, sounds like you have help (lj).

[kore]

Sadly, I can't offer help, but I've noticed that happening a lot with poetry on the Kindle.

[lenora_rose]

Possibly Naomi Kritzer (On LJ as, well, Naomikritzer) ? She had a whole series of posts on e-book prep at one point.