Kindle previewer - ignores tabs?

[wcpeace]

I recently published my print book on Amazon. I am now doing various ebook versions, starting with Kindle. (Google books is next I reckon)

I saved the file as a epub and MOBI file but when I use the KDP previewer - the resulting text looks different. Does the MOBI format not
support TABS?

What is the best way forward?

Thanks

[DaleDe]

Neither mobi or ePub supports tabs. If you used tabs to indent a paragraph or provide visual margins you need to go into styles and set proper values there. They will be converted to CSS in the ePub document.

What were you using the tabs for? If to build a table then use the new beta table edition.

Dale

[wcpeace]

I used tabs to indent paragraphs. I understand there is another way to do this, I have to check an earlier response to an earlier inquiry I made.

I didn't change out of habit...but now I am forced to...

Thanks...let me see if I can find the earlier thread...

[wcpeace]

http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en ... highlight=

I found it....let's see if I can implement it...

[wcpeace]

ok, I search and replaced all tabs and deleted them. I then modified my main text style to add first line INDENT of a space equivalent to what the tab was. So far so good.

Now, the issue is that there is an indent on the first paragraph of a scene break (These are separated by a an extra carriage return - space between last paragraph of a scene and first paragraph of new scene)

Do I need to create a new style and apply it to each 1st paragraph of a new scene? This new style would be without the indent. OR is there a better way to handle this?

[Robert]

OK, I search and replaced all tabs and deleted them. I then modified my main text style to add first line INDENT of a space equivalent to what the tab was. So far so good.

Now, the issue is that there is an indent on the first paragraph of a scene break (These are separated by an extra carriage return - space between last paragraph of a scene and first paragraph of new scene)

Do I need to create a new style and apply it to each 1st paragraph of a new scene? This new style would be without the indent. OR is there a better way to handle this?

Indents are best applied through dedicated paragraph styles, and vertical spacing is also best created through the Paragraph Spacing Before/After values of the associated styles. Style-controlled paragraphs are automatically spaced out by Atlantis. There should be no need for any extra carriage returns.
There is no better way to handle this than through styles. Simply create dedicated appropriate styles for each specific paragraph type (style).

HTH.
Cheers.
Robert

[wcpeace]

Thanks for the quick heads up Robert.

Ok, I will create a new 1st paragraph style.....

At least now I know better for any new manuscripts I create with Atlantis! Since if I did any of those, that would be non-fiction, your Atlantis 2.0 tab les feature would come in handy.