Content generation method for electronic books and computer-readable medium

A method for generating electronic book data in which a computer places a first content and a second content on a display screen at a distance D along a Y-axis in an orthogonal coordinate system formed by an X-axis and the Y-axis orthogonal to each other, the first content including a first display target, the second content including a second display target, the method comprising:

• identifying a first non-display-target region which is part of a non-display-target region obtained by excluding a region of the first display target from a region of the first content and which is located on the second content side;
• identifying a second non-display-target region which is part of a non-display-target region obtained by excluding a region of the second display target from a region of the second content and which is located on the first content side;
• calculating a plurality of total widths each of which is a sum of a width of the first non-display-target region in a direction of the Y-axis and a width of the second non-display-target region in the direction of the Y-axis, the widths being at a same X-coordinate;
• determining the distance D based on a result of comparison between a predetermined distribution function which is predetermined independent of the two display targets and is not a constant function and a distribution of the plurality of total widths so that the spacing at the location where the two display targets are closest to each other is equal to or larger than a predetermined value to prevent from overlapping between the two display targets;
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• generating electronic book data including the first content and the second content that have said distance D.