Turn off annoying flag in reading pane

Jon_AK · 03-26-2013, 07:33 PM

hi all,

while in the reading pane of a book, if my mouse happens to rest for more than a couple seconds anywhere in the reading pane this annoying little flag shows up which contains a line or two of text from the beginning of a paragraph the mouse cursor is closest to.

i wish to turn that off but i cannot find a setting to do this. is there a way to do thsi? if not, can we please have a version upgrade that will allow that to be turned off?

kovidgoyal · 03-26-2013, 11:13 PM

You're going to have to post a screenshot, because I have no idea what you are talking about.

PeterT · 03-26-2013, 11:41 PM

Try turning off Reference mode in the calibre viewer; on my viewer it's the 12th icon down on the left hand side of the screen.

Jon_AK · 03-27-2013, 02:04 AM

that was the first thing i turned off but that is the button for controlling the flag that displays the paragraph number in the upper left of the screen. this is a very small flag that appears all over the reading pane wherever your mouse happens to be. it displays a shortened version of the beginning of a paragraph .

Jon_AK · 03-27-2013, 02:27 AM

Attached is a pdf of a screen show depicting the random locations where this flag appears if i move my mouse on the reading pane and let it "hover" there for more than a couple seconds.

kovidgoyal · 03-27-2013, 02:35 AM

There's nothing in the viewer that causes that, its likely the file you are viewing defines tooltips for its various paragraphs (HTML title attribute), which is what you are seeing.

Jon_AK · 03-27-2013, 12:08 PM

you're correct in saying it is in the ebook. i opened a few others and had no issues with this... guess i should have done that sooner. do you know of any add-ins that will remove this?

kovidgoyal · 03-27-2013, 12:55 PM

Edit your ebook in an ebook editing program like sigil and remove the title attributes.

03-26-2013, 07:33 PM	#1
Jon_AK Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2013 Device: Toshiba	Turn off annoying flag in reading pane hi all, while in the reading pane of a book, if my mouse happens to rest for more than a couple seconds anywhere in the reading pane this annoying little flag shows up which contains a line or two of text from the beginning of a paragraph the mouse cursor is closest to. i wish to turn that off but i cannot find a setting to do this. is there a way to do thsi? if not, can we please have a version upgrade that will allow that to be turned off?

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03-26-2013, 11:13 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,856 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	You're going to have to post a screenshot, because I have no idea what you are talking about.

03-26-2013, 11:41 PM	#3
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,166 Karma: 73448616 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Nexus 7, Clara, Touch, Tolino EPOS	Try turning off Reference mode in the calibre viewer; on my viewer it's the 12th icon down on the left hand side of the screen.

03-27-2013, 02:04 AM	#4
Jon_AK Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2013 Device: Toshiba	that was the first thing i turned off but that is the button for controlling the flag that displays the paragraph number in the upper left of the screen. this is a very small flag that appears all over the reading pane wherever your mouse happens to be. it displays a shortened version of the beginning of a paragraph .

03-27-2013, 02:35 AM	#6
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,856 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	There's nothing in the viewer that causes that, its likely the file you are viewing defines tooltips for its various paragraphs (HTML title attribute), which is what you are seeing.

03-27-2013, 12:08 PM	#7
Jon_AK Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2013 Device: Toshiba	you're correct in saying it is in the ebook. i opened a few others and had no issues with this... guess i should have done that sooner. do you know of any add-ins that will remove this?

03-27-2013, 12:55 PM	#8
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,856 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Edit your ebook in an ebook editing program like sigil and remove the title attributes.

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