How to make vertical epub e-books

At present, most of the Buddhist classics circulating on the internet are simplified Chinese characters in horizontal format, so it is difficult to find the traditional vertical format. I especially like reading Buddhist classics in vertical and traditional formats, and take this opportunity to make several vertical e-books for my own study. It wasn't too difficult at first, but it became more and more difficult, and I saw how difficult it is to make a beautifully typeset book. Taking this opportunity, I also hope that everyone will cherish the labor achievements of the original author and publishing house and try not to infringe on the intellectual property rights of others. The goal of this paper is to focus on making traditional vertical e-books Epub and MOBI files, which are mainly used for reading on Amazon Kindle readers, and it cannot be guaranteed that all EPUB readers can display vertically correctly. Even so, I read on iBooks and read more on iPhone, and I still achieved relatively satisfactory results. In the process of learning to make vertical e-books, I referred to the information about vertical e-books on the Internet. Making tools:

1. Software Text editing software, including TextProV6.5 (mainly used for the conversion between complexity and simplification), EverEdit (mainly used for editing files), Epub editing software, Sigil and related plug-ins (kindlegen plug-ins directly output AZW3 format documents). Kindle Preview, KindleGen Legend, is used to preview and convert official software into MOBI and AZW3 formats.

2. Necessary original text and pictures, etc.

The original text can be downloaded from a trusted website.

② The pictures are mainly front cover, back cover and illustrations.

(3) If you have a favorite font, you can also embed the font into the EPUB file. For example, if I like Founder Song Ya font, you can download it from the official website (a copy of GBK font in 5 yuan).

(4) The original book is printed or scanned into PDF format, which is convenient for reference or proofreading when typesetting.

Third, the main production steps:

① Add various HTML tags to the text. I first open sigil, create a new blank file, and then open an editor in code view (F2) for editing. Add "class" to the text that needs special definition. Flexible use of regular expressions is very beneficial to text editing. If you have knowledge of regular expressions, you can get twice the result with half the effort.

② Add css style sheets and link xhtml documents to style sheets. It mainly includes the following parameters: 1. Vertical arrangement of necessary attributes.