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Old 04-27-2009, 05:29 PM   #1
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Remove spacing between paragraphs doesn't.

I tried converting an ebook with annoyingly large spaces between the paragraphs to epub, using this option, and nothing changed.

Is this a bug? Whether or no, is there another way to remove these spaces?
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Old 04-27-2009, 05:32 PM   #2
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It depends on how the spaces are created in the source file. If they're "hard" spaces, they can't be removed.
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Old 04-27-2009, 05:53 PM   #3
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I think I may have found the problem. I converted the file to html, and every paragraph is set up thus:

Code:
<div style="margin-top: 1em; text-indent: 1em"><font size="3">Blah blah blah, paragraph 1.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 1em"/>
<div style="margin-top: 1em; text-indent: 1em"><font size="3">Blah blah blah, paragraph 2.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 1em"/>
And so on.

I've just re-converted it with instructions to use zero margins for every DIV tag, but it didn't help.

Any suggestions on how I could force the book to behave? I really hate having every paragraph double-spaced this way.
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Old 04-27-2009, 06:08 PM   #4
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Removing this type of spacing will be supported by calibre 0.6, until then you're out of luck.
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Old 04-27-2009, 06:23 PM   #5
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I guess I'll just have to wait until then to read this book.
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Old 04-27-2009, 08:33 PM   #6
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Just open up the html file in a text editor and do a find/replace job.

Eg:
Code:
<div style="margin-top: 1em; text-indent: 1em"><font size="3">Blah blah blah, paragraph 1.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 1em"/>
Find
Code:
<div style="margin-top: 1em; text-indent: 1em">
Replace all
Code:
<div style="text-indent: 1em">
And (maybe) do the same with
Code:
<div style="margin-top: 1em"/>
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Old 04-28-2009, 04:53 AM   #7
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Wouldn't just deleting (or replacing by nothing) all the '<div style="margin-top: 1em"/>'s work?

(The above's the quickest solution, while the 'better' solution would be to replace things such that you had '<p>Blah blah blah, paragraph 1.</p>', etc, then to style that in the header, e.g.
Code:
<head>
    <style type="text/css">
        p { text-indent: 1.5em; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0}
    </style>
</head>
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