trying to get text to justify - Page 2

DNSB · 08-15-2022, 05:38 PM

I'm rather curious as to where you got a copy of Chef Maurice and the Rather Fishy Tale in Microsoft Word format?

PeterT · 08-15-2022, 06:05 PM

Heck; I can't find it in any format lol! The author's website claims if you subscribe to her mailing list, you get a free download, but the link to MailChimp fails. Both her Facebook author's page and personal page have had no updates for several years (2015 I think).

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DNSB · 08-15-2022, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by PeterT

Heck; I can't find it in any format lol! The author's website claims if you subscribe to her mailing list, you get a free download, but the link to MailChimp fails. Both her Facebook author's page and personal page have had no updates for several years (2015 I think).

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That's where I got it from but that was back in 2015. The download was available in (if I am remembering correctly) epub and mobi formats. At one point, it was also available on Amazon but again that was years back.

Clio · 08-16-2022, 03:18 AM

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Originally Posted by DNSB

I'm rather curious as to where you got a copy of Chef Maurice and the Rather Fishy Tale in Microsoft Word format?

Hello,

I got it from the author's website several years ago, when it was available there. It was available in several formats, and I got it in pdf form, because back then I was so new to ebooks that I didn't realize a different format would probably have been better.

Now that I know a little bit more, I came back to it and copied the text from the pdf into a blank Word document, because I keep reading posts on here about how pdf is not a good format to convert from. Once in a Word document, it worked reasonably well, except for the justification, which is now fixed, thanks to help from this forum.

Clio · 08-16-2022, 03:21 AM

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Originally Posted by PeterT

Heck; I can't find it in any format lol! The author's website claims if you subscribe to her mailing list, you get a free download, but the link to MailChimp fails. Both her Facebook author's page and personal page have had no updates for several years (2015 I think).

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Yes, I noticed that that link seems to no longer be working. And she hasn't published any more books in quite a while.

JSWolf · 08-16-2022, 04:49 AM

When TOR started giving away eBooks, they did it in PDF. Enough people complained and they switched to Mobi. Now they give away ePub, KF8, & Mobi.

kcarscadden · 08-27-2022, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by theducks

@Clio If you are using the Calibre editor...
Locate a 'misbehaving' paragraph: hold the control key down and click on 'Style= '
That should jump you to the CSS controlling that P
Text-align: is what you are looking for.

Note CSS classes can inherit from a outer block. So the alignment might be controlled by a surrounding <div> or even the <body>

I am interested in this behavior in the editor, but cannot reproduce it. Should the cursor be in the file preview panel or the edit panel? When you hold down the control key, where is 'Style= ' to click on?

Keith

JSWolf · 08-27-2022, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by kcarscadden

I am interested in this behavior in the editor, but cannot reproduce it. Should the cursor be in the file preview panel or the edit panel? When you hold down the control key, where is 'Style= ' to click on?

Keith

It in the code section. But the problem is that when you see Style= in there, that's not part of the CSS. That's CSS code in the HTML code. That's bad form. Whatever is in Style= should not be there and should be in the CSS. So the control key/click will not take you to the CSS file.

Can you post here what it is you are seeing?

retiredbiker · 08-27-2022, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by kcarscadden

I am interested in this behavior in the editor, but cannot reproduce it. Should the cursor be in the file preview panel or the edit panel? When you hold down the control key, where is 'Style= ' to click on?

Keith

That initial instruction about clicking on "style=" was probably a mistake, because as JSWolf says, that's poor usage. It should be "class=". Here is an example.

Here is a sentence in the code/editing section:

Code:

<p class="calibre_8">Inside the cab the seats were patched and smelt of overheated dog.</p>

If you ctrl-click on the <p class="calibre_8"> bit, it should take you into the css file at "calibre_8, like this:

Code:

.calibre_8 {
  display: block;
  font-size: 1em;
  margin-top: 0;
  margin-right: 0;
  margin-bottom: 0.1em;
  margin-left: 0;
  text-align: left;
  text-indent: 2em;
}

Where you can find the text-align value for that class.

JSWolf · 08-27-2022, 05:07 PM

Here is an example of poor code. The text indent has two problems. It's in the HTML and it's 5%. It should be between 1em and 1.5em and it should be in the para class in the CSS.

Code:

<p class="para" style="text-indent:5%;">Vin watched the downy flakes drift through the air. Leisurely. Careless. Free. The puffs of soot fell like black snowflakes, descending upon the dark city of Luthadel. They drifted in corners, blowing in the breeze and curling in tiny whirlwinds over the cobblestones. They seemed so uncaring. What would that be like?</p>

Code:

.para {
  display: block;
  margin-top: 0%;
  margin-bottom: 0%;
}

theducks · 08-27-2022, 05:36 PM

My bad s/b Class=
What was I thinking

kcarscadden · 09-02-2022, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by theducks

My bad s/b Class=
What was I thinking

I tried this several ways, and finally got it to work. Frequently, I read something very literally, and couldn't get this to work controlkey/clicking on class=

For anyone else interested, this is what is required.

In the code section, with a class="something", controlkey/click on something to go to that class within the .css file containing that class.

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08-15-2022, 05:38 PM	#16
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 36,593 Karma: 146496996 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	I'm rather curious as to where you got a copy of Chef Maurice and the Rather Fishy Tale in Microsoft Word format?

08-15-2022, 06:05 PM	#17
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,255 Karma: 74007256 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Nexus 7, Clara, Touch, Tolino EPOS	Heck; I can't find it in any format lol! The author's website claims if you subscribe to her mailing list, you get a free download, but the link to MailChimp fails. Both her Facebook author's page and personal page have had no updates for several years (2015 I think). Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

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JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 74,565 Karma: 129670952 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	When TOR started giving away eBooks, they did it in PDF. Enough people complained and they switched to Mobi. Now they give away ePub, KF8, & Mobi.

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theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,952 Karma: 55705602 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	My bad s/b Class= What was I thinking

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