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jackie_w · 10-18-2010, 07:14 PM

[Update:]

As soon as I'd submitted my reply I had another thought.

By taking the .TXT file and manually editing it to replace the first space of every line with leading spaces into a dot e.g.

Code:

               This is my dialogue

becomes

.              This is my dialogue

I was then able to get the TXT conversion with 'Preserve spaces' to work.

i.e convert TXT to EPUB/MOBI with:

Convert - TXT Input - 'Preserve spaces' checked
Convert - TXT Input - 'Treat each line as a paragraph' checked
Convert - Look&Feel - 'ExtraCSS' set to p {font-family:monospace; font-weight:bold; margin:0;}

My resulting EPUB doesn't look too bad - despite the dots. see below

10-18-2010, 07:14 PM	#5
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,196 Karma: 16228558 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: Kobo: KA1, ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E. PocketBook: TouchHD3	[Update:] As soon as I'd submitted my reply I had another thought. By taking the .TXT file and manually editing it to replace the first space of every line with leading spaces into a dot e.g. Code: This is my dialogue becomes . This is my dialogue I was then able to get the TXT conversion with 'Preserve spaces' to work. i.e convert TXT to EPUB/MOBI with: Convert - TXT Input - 'Preserve spaces' checked Convert - TXT Input - 'Treat each line as a paragraph' checked Convert - Look&Feel - 'ExtraCSS' set to p {font-family:monospace; font-weight:bold; margin:0;} My resulting EPUB doesn't look too bad - despite the dots. see below Attached Thumbnails Last edited by jackie_w; 10-18-2010 at 09:51 PM. Reason: updated ExtraCSS