Just an update to say that the epub option in the export settings didn’t change nothing. So my issue is still ongoing and a mistery. Any other idea how to fix it?

That would work for the epub issue, but in my case I can’t do that because the text I’m using is linked to InCopy, and I’m using the same text synchronised in 2 other books with different formats. I need the verses of the other versions to still be legit numbered lists. Can’t break the links to InCopy either because we’re often updating this text and publishing new versions.

Hello Aaron,

I guess you’re right, it must be a bug on PlayBooks because I just tested my epub on Calibre and IceCream reader and it’s working fine.
I’ve noticed though that this issue of numbered list appeared after I added a code in my CSS file to remove the dot between the verse number and the text of the verse :


ol {
counter-reset: item;
list-style-type: none;
}
li { display: block; }
li:before {
content: counter(item) " ";
counter-increment: item
}


So maybe somehow this code is conflicting with something else in PlayBooks.
Thanks for your suggestion, I’ll post now on Twitter and see what comes out.

Thank you so much Theunis. So I did as you said and it took me about 2h to encode everything. I found an ewe alphabet online which helped me copy and paste most of the “correct” ewe characters in unicode. Some others were not there, I think they were characters from another african dialect, but eventually I found their unicode on wikipedia.

No more white or red boxes, and now I can put ewe text in italic or bold using Times New Roman.
Thanks again, greatly appreciate your help. I couldn’t have figured this out on my own.

So I’m pretty much done with testing to solve my issue.

I tried different settings, for 2 different results:

1. All text is aligned: I obtained this by creating a new paragraph style with different justification settings (higher word and letter spacing, and glyph scaling) which I applied to a whole page or a few verses on 7% of the pages (100 pages in total) falling short of text because of the Keep options (keeping the chapter titles with its description + 2 verses).

https://bibleostervald.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Capture.jpg

I got this result whether I forced all lines to align to the grid within the paragraph styles settings, or whether I didn’t force anything to snap to the grid but the 1st verse of each chapter. I calculated the margins size accordingly, so that the text frames were an exact multiple of the baseline grid.

2. 93% of the text is aligned, and 7% is justified : I got this by having all my text boxes set to “Justify” in the text frame options. Most of the text aligned, except the same 7% of pages as case 1, which got justified. The result is random: if the number of lines is equal in both columns, the text will align, if not it wont.

In conclusion, after all this testing I havent found a perfect solution. The cost of having ALL text to align is high: 130 pages to adjust in order to fix columns not fully filling the text bloc (and the difference of text justification is very noticeable), and widows created because I can’t have proper keep options without creating significantly more problems. Plus I havent found a solution to have an equal amount of space between the chapter description (which is 7,5 pts and the 1st verse 11,25pts). I worry about having that many pages to fix, while the text of our Bible isnt fixed yet. Its still being revised, and some word modified there and there to be closer to the KJV.

Because of all the downsides of having all text aligned, I’m thinking letting go of it and just keep it to justify everywhere. Unless that I’m still missing something, and a solution is still out there…

Hi Joel,

Thank you so much for your detailed answer.
I’ll try everything you said to have a more professional look and maybe avoid other issues (I didnt know at all about character styles and the baseline shift option).

Although as I’m reading I’m wondering how that will help with the source of my problem, which is my paragraph keeping rules. The title that says “CHAPTER 2” is set to stay with all lines of the smaller text below it (which is description of the chapter). And this description has for rule to stay with at least the 2 first verses. So on the left page of my screenshot, you can see what sort of problem that creates. If I turn off justification of the text bloc, the CHAPTER 1 will end short of several lines, with the columns uneven.
This problem occurs in about 5% of pages in my book.

I have a Bible in my hands as exemple which has the same system of chapter title and description, and never across this Bible I’ve seen any block of text fall short because of paragraph rules. I have no clue how they’ve done it (and even if they were using ID). I didnt notice either any page where the text isnt aligned to the grid.

If there is a way to get everything to look perfect, that’d be great. But if not, I have to find a way to try to limit the damages by at least having the justified text to align across the 2 columns of the page.

Does anyone know about this ?

To rephrase my question, I’m looking to change my document presets all at once. Specifically the document page size, gutter, and margin measurements, while having the layout adjustment ON. I have looked into the book synchronize options and did some tests, but couldn’t find a way to make it happen. Maybe I’m missing something, or this feature doesnt exist yet ? I found this online which is the same question as mine, but unresolved: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/700281

Any insight on this would be much appreciated.