06-25-2012, 06:45 PM | #1 | ||
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Problems removing white space between paragraphs
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I'm trying to remove the white space between paragraphs in my eBook. The Sigil FAQ tells me: Quote:
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Still nothing. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm a bit of a novice at this, although I have used Sigil before to create an eBook ... but at that time I just left the white space as it was. Grateful for any help. Thanks! |
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06-25-2012, 06:58 PM | #2 |
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Would need to see a sample of the actual html code to see what may be going on for sure. That particular CSS won't get rid of all whitespace if there's something like: "<p> </p>" or "<p><br /></p>" throughout the code.
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06-25-2012, 06:59 PM | #3 | |
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Aha. I expect that's the problem, then. Here's an example of a sentence:
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06-25-2012, 07:03 PM | #4 | |
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p>O<small>NE EVENING, MANY YEARS</small> ago, I was travelling through south Iceland with two of my cousins. We stopped in the town of Vík to camp for the night. After pitching our tent at the campsite we decided to take a walk before turning in. It was in the middle of summer, so it was broad daylight even though it was late in the evening.</p> |
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06-25-2012, 07:10 PM | #5 |
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Yes, but it's on every paragraph in the book, and there are hundreds, maybe even over a thousand.
Is there a way to avoid getting them in there in the first place, e.g. if I save as html or something? (This was pasted from Word.) |
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Search (NORMAL mode, All HTML): <br /></p> Replace: </p> I guess that to be safe you should check for scene breaks BEFORE you do this search&replace COUNT (Normal, all HTML): <p> <br /></p> If it comes up Not found, this combo nation was not used. Note substitute <p class="<what you see>"> if your P tags have a common class |
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06-25-2012, 07:26 PM | #7 |
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That would be my only concern, too. But even then... I'd probably be willing to sacrifice the scene-breaks (or any other vertical spacing breaks) at that point just to get things cleaned up. I could always add them back in with CSS if I have an original document to compare to.
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06-26-2012, 12:31 AM | #8 |
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<p> <br /></p> 1. Search for Code:
<p> <br /></p> Code:
<p class="scenebreak"> </p> 2. Search for Code:
<br /></p> Code:
</p> In your css file add the following Code:
p.scenebreak {margin-bottom: 0.5em;} |
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06-26-2012, 04:57 AM | #10 |
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But you can't make it smaller than 1 line in that way. I'd leave the margin at 0 and change the "height" property instead.
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06-26-2012, 05:29 AM | #12 |
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Then I'd use "height: 1.5em", that way all the space goes in a single place, and not split in height+margin (the final effect is the same, anyway )
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06-26-2012, 06:11 AM | #13 |
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Thanks for all the replies. I'm not sure what you mean by "scenebreak" - could you please clarify?
I guess what I was asking originally was whether this problem has something to do with pasting from Word, or whether it also happens when the doc is saved as html. I gather that not everyone has this problem or it would be addressed in the FAQs, so what did I do to have this come up? Thanks! Alda |
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Another thing: when I look at this more closely I see that <br /> is rare. Usually it's just the
In that case, is it a question of eliminating the altogether? |
06-26-2012, 06:47 AM | #15 |
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is just a non breaking space that means the words on either side and the space will always be displayed together. Sometimes it can cause an extra space but not mostly.
In code view you do a search and replace for and replace it with a space from the spacebar generally without harm. In fact I nearly always do so to eliminate unexpected ends of lines. Try it and see what you have left. You may have to do a little detective work. Find a paragraph where you have the problem and look at the styles which applied to it in the stylesheet. You may have it surrounded in <div>s which cover more than one paragraph, so look up and down and see if you can find a <div> which starts above and doesn't end until below it. |
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