Starting new chapters on a new page

[Richard Powell]

Hi everyone. This is probably a pretty simple one for most of you. I have an epub file which was created in QuarkXPress. The chapters all need to start on a new page. I imagine that would be the Chapter style in the css file which would have to be altered? I have attached a screenshot of the css file. Can somebody please explain how I need to alter the text to achieve this. Thank you.

[Bruce Van Allen]

I haven’t used Quark for at least a decade, so I haven’t faced this question in that context. But with css in general:

1. Your css is using the deprecated page-break-inside property. It might still work, so try 'page-break-before: initial;' in the first paragraph of a chapter.

2. Otherwise the newer property is simply break-before (along with break-after, and break-inside);

break-before: page;
break-before: initial;

See mdn: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/break-before>

HTH

— Bruce

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> On Mar 15, 2023, at 12:28 PM, Richard Powell <bassplayer...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone. This is probably a pretty simple one for most of you. I have an epub file which was created in QuarkXPress. The chapters all need to start on a new page. I imagine that would be the Chapter style in the css file which would have to be altered? I have attached a screenshot of the css file. Can somebody please explain how I need to alter the text to achieve this. Thank you.
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[Bruce Van Allen]

I haven’t used Quark for at least a decade, so I haven’t faced this question in that context. But with css in general:

1. Your css is using the deprecated page-break-inside property. It might still work, so try 'page-break-before: initial;' in the first paragraph of a chapter.

ADDED: Maybe not the first paragraph of the chapter if you have a separate Chapter style.

2. Otherwise the newer property is simply break-before (along with break-after, and break-inside);

break-before: page;
break-before: initial;

See mdn: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/break-before>

HTH

— Bruce

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> On Mar 15, 2023, at 12:28 PM, Richard Powell <bassplayer...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

> Hi everyone. This is probably a pretty simple one for most of you. I have an epub file which was created in QuarkXPress. The chapters all need to start on a new page. I imagine that would be the Chapter style in the css file which would have to be altered? I have attached a screenshot of the css file. Can somebody please explain how I need to alter the text to achieve this. Thank you.
>
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[David Donachie]

On 15 Mar 2023, at 21:05, Bruce Van Allen <b...@cruzio.com> wrote:

I haven’t used Quark for at least a decade, so I haven’t faced this question in that context. But with css in general:

1. Your css is using the deprecated page-break-inside property. It might still work, so try 'page-break-before: initial;' in the first paragraph of a chapter.

2. Otherwise the newer property is simply break-before (along with break-after, and break-inside);

break-before: page;
break-before: initial;

See mdn: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/break-before>

Although break-before is part of the current CSS spec, the EPUB 3.3 spec (which I think is the latest) refers to page-break-before only. I can’t see an indication in the W3C spec that break-before is supported: https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33

Having said that, the draft points at https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS which does have break-before, so you could equally assume that 3.3 does support it.

Of course, some EPUB platforms only support EPUB 2, which wouldn’t definitely not use break-before.

I guess the right approach is to test your target platforms.

Yours

David Donachie