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Old 01-08-2009, 11:28 AM   #1
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Text becomes center-aligned when converting

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I'm trying to convert a html document with Calibre. When I open the html, whether it's in a browser, in Word or in Dreamweaver, the text is left-aligned, but when Calibre converts it, the text is center aligned.

I was wondering, is there any way I can control this from the gui or the command line?

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Old 01-08-2009, 11:49 AM   #2
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I'm trying to convert a html document with Calibre. When I open the html, whether it's in a browser, in Word or in Dreamweaver, the text is left-aligned, but when Calibre converts it, the text is center aligned.
If you're converting it to LRF it's probably a problem with the LRF converter's CSS-groking. If you try EPUB output instead it'll probably work.
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Old 01-08-2009, 02:33 PM   #3
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Ah; but then I'd be stuck with ePub, yes?

Tried it out, and it worked, though. Thanks for the tip.

Is there anyway I can edit the original html to get it to convert properly into LRF? Ichecked the doc in Dreamweaver and it has no CSS. Should I create a new one to ensure it aligns left?
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Old 01-08-2009, 02:46 PM   #4
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try converting the EPUB to LRF (the conversion to EPUB may have rectified the problem with the original HTML)
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Old 01-08-2009, 02:57 PM   #5
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No touchdown this time, it's still center-aligned. I'll try to play around with the CSS tomorrow. Thanks for the help.
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IIRC this happens when some paragraph is styled as center aligned and then the remaining text is put after that paragraph without any <p> tags of its own. In that case html2lrf assumes that the style for the subsequent text should be the same as for the previous paragraph.

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Alfy, can you attach a sample code?
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IIRC this happens when some paragraph is styled as center aligned and then the remaining text is put after that paragraph without any <p> tags of its own. In that case html2lrf assumes that the style for the subsequent text should be the same as for the previous paragraph.
This is exactly what I have seen with some eReader output converted to HTML. The center aligned tag is followed by a paragraph and then my multiple ugly <br> tags rather than <p> tags with effectively one <P> tag per chapter.

My fix was to correct the HTML with search and replace, but in secondary books I just removed the center align tags.

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This is exactly what I have seen with some eReader output converted to HTML. The center aligned tag is followed by a paragraph and then my multiple ugly <br> tags rather than <p> tags with effectively one <P> tag per chapter.

My fix was to correct the HTML with search and replace, but in secondary books I just removed the center align tags.

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I just looked at one html file converted from ereader, and I see what you mean. Ayayayayay. The file needs serious reformatting. Needless to say, this isn't calibre's problem.
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I just looked at one html file converted from ereader, and I see what you mean. Ayayayayay. The file needs serious reformatting. Needless to say, this isn't calibre's problem.
That isn't the eReader book's fault per-se. In eReader PML, paragraphs are delimited by just two newlines, like in Project Gutenberg plain text. The ereader2html tool just translates those newlines into <br/> tags, leaving you with what you see.
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That isn't the eReader book's fault per-se. In eReader PML, paragraphs are delimited by just two newlines, like in Project Gutenberg plain text. The ereader2html tool just translates those newlines into <br/> tags, leaving you with what you see.
I didn't mean to say it was the eReader format's "fault". I had studied the PML format and the conversion script before I made the post and figured out what was going on. The conversion script can be enhanced so that the output html is formatted well.
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I didn't mean to say it was the eReader format's "fault". I had studied the PML format and the conversion script before I made the post and figured out what was going on. The conversion script can be enhanced so that the output html is formatted well.
Ah, fair enough then.
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The conversion script can be enhanced so that the output html is formatted well.
Does it mean you have already done the hardwork and can share a modification to ereader2html that improves the HTML output?
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