Conversion adds indents not in original input

snarkophilus · 05-27-2011, 09:52 AM

Hi folks,

I've had a search through the conversion sub-forum and couldn't see this mentioned. Please direct me elsewhere if that has been covered already.

I've got a simple html example where there is no indent in the first paragraph and indents for following paragraphs. When I enable debug output, I can see the input html basically unchanged in the input/ parsed/ and structure/ directories, but in the processed/ directory the html with the calibre class tags added per paragraph are all the indented tag.

Here's my html input:

Code:

<html>
  <head>
      <title>Test</title>
      <style type="text/css">
          p { margin: 0em; text-indent: 0 }
          p + p { margin: 0em; text-indent: 1.5em }
      </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p><span>"</span><span>S</span>ally."</p>
    <p>A mutter.</p>
    <br/>
    <p>"Wake up now, Sally."</p>
    <p>A louder mutter: <em>leeme lone.</em></p>
  </body>
</html>

which comes out looking somewhat like this in a browser:

Sally

A mutter.

"Wake up now, Sally."

A louder mutter: leeme lone.

In the processed/ directory we end up with this html:

Code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
      <title>Test</title>
      <meta content="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/><link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/><style type="text/css">
                @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; }</style></head>
  <body class="calibre">
    <p class="calibre1"><span>"</span><span>S</span>ally."</p>
    <p class="calibre1">A mutter.</p>
    <br class="calibre2"/>
    <p class="calibre1">"Wake up now, Sally."</p>
    <p class="calibre1">A louder mutter: <em class="calibre3">leeme lone.</em></p>
  </body>
</html>

and .calibre1 in the style sheet has "text-indent: 1.5em". This comes out looking somewhat like this in an epub (all lines indented):

Sally

A mutter.

"Wake up now, Sally."

A louder mutter: leeme lone.

Note that this behaviour isn't specific to using something like p+p to control indent. From a converted mobi, the input directory ends up with a html that just has a different class="calibre_xxx" tag for the initial paragraph (which in a browser is correctly zero indented) to the rest of the paragraphs (which are indented). I'm looking for a generic fix here - the example above is just the simplest I could create by hand.

Is there some setting I'm missing that controls this?

Should I also offer some sort of bonus if someone can identify the book from the first four lines?

Cheers,
Simon.

jackie_w · 05-27-2011, 11:43 AM

Hi Simon,

It works OK for me - attached a screencap of the zip-to-epub conversion. I copied the html directly from your post.

These are the conversion settings shown in the conversion job details. You could compare them against your own.

Spoiler:

Code:

Convert book 1 of 1 (Indent)
Processing archive...
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.8.1
{'asciiize': False,
 'author_sort': None,
 'authors': None,
 'base_font_size': 12.0,
 'book_producer': None,
 'breadth_first': False,
 'change_justification': u'justify',
 'chapter': u"//*[name()='h2' or name()='h3']",
 'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
 'comments': None,
 'cover': None,
 'debug_pipeline': None,
 'dehyphenate': True,
 'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
 'disable_font_rescaling': False,
 'dont_package': False,
 'dont_split_on_page_breaks': False,
 'enable_heuristics': False,
 'epub_flatten': False,
 'extra_css': None,
 'extract_to': None,
 'fix_indents': True,
 'flow_size': 260,
 'font_size_mapping': u'9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 20, 33',
 'format_scene_breaks': True,
 'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
 'input_encoding': None,
 'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x04619BF0>,
 'insert_blank_line': False,
 'insert_metadata': False,
 'isbn': None,
 'italicize_common_cases': True,
 'keep_ligatures': False,
 'language': None,
 'level1_toc': u'//h:h2',
 'level2_toc': u'//h:h3',
 'level3_toc': None,
 'line_height': 0.0,
 'linearize_tables': False,
 'margin_bottom': 5.0,
 'margin_left': 5.0,
 'margin_right': 5.0,
 'margin_top': 15.0,
 'markup_chapter_headings': True,
 'max_levels': 5,
 'max_toc_links': 0,
 'minimum_line_height': 0.0,
 'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
 'no_default_epub_cover': False,
 'no_inline_navbars': False,
 'no_svg_cover': False,
 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.SonyReaderOutput object at 0x04627050>,
 'page_breaks_before': u'/',
 'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
 'preserve_cover_aspect_ratio': False,
 'pretty_print': True,
 'pubdate': None,
 'publisher': None,
 'rating': None,
 'read_metadata_from_opf': u'c:\\docume~1\\jackies\\locals~1\\temp\\calibre_0.8.1_tmp_uqmxez\\calibre_0.8.1_mxv6oi.opf',
 'remove_fake_margins': False,
 'remove_first_image': False,
 'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
 'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
 'renumber_headings': True,
 'replace_scene_breaks': u'',
 'series': None,
 'series_index': None,
 'smarten_punctuation': True,
 'sr1_replace': None,
 'sr1_search': None,
 'sr2_replace': None,
 'sr2_search': None,
 'sr3_replace': None,
 'sr3_search': None,
 'tags': None,
 'timestamp': None,
 'title': None,
 'title_sort': None,
 'toc_filter': None,
 'toc_threshold': 6,
 'unwrap_lines': True,
 'use_auto_toc': False,
 'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: HTML Input running
on c:\docume~1\jackies\locals~1\temp\calibre_0.8.1_tmp_uqmxez\calibre_0.8.1_dauecr_plumber_archive\content.opf
Parsing all content...
Manifest item 'toc.ncx' not found
Parsing Indent.html ...
Generating default TOC from spine...
Merging user specified metadata...
Detecting structure...
Auto generated TOC with 0 entries.
Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes...
Source base font size is 12.00000pt
Cleaning up manifest...
Trimming unused files from manifest...
Parsing stylesheet.css ...
Creating EPUB Output...
	Looking for large trees in Indent.html...
	No large trees found
Generating default cover
This EPUB file has no Table of Contents. Creating a default TOC
EPUB output written to c:\docume~1\jackies\locals~1\temp\calibre_0.8.1_tmp_uqmxez\calibre_0.8.1_f4viod.epub

Edit: If I had to guess I would start by looking at the 'remove_paragraph_spacing' option on the Look&Feel page

snarkophilus · 05-27-2011, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Edit: If I had to guess I would start by looking at the 'remove_paragraph_spacing' option on the Look&Feel page

Bingo!

For some reason that I can't recall, I had this option enabled. Unchecking that gives me exactly what I'm after.

Thank you,
Simon.

05-27-2011, 09:52 AM	#1
snarkophilus Wannabe Connoisseur Posts: 425 Karma: 2516674 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Geelong, Australia Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura 2, Sony PRS-T1, Sony PRS-350, Palm TX	Conversion adds indents not in original input Hi folks, I've had a search through the conversion sub-forum and couldn't see this mentioned. Please direct me elsewhere if that has been covered already. I've got a simple html example where there is no indent in the first paragraph and indents for following paragraphs. When I enable debug output, I can see the input html basically unchanged in the input/ parsed/ and structure/ directories, but in the processed/ directory the html with the calibre class tags added per paragraph are all the indented tag. Here's my html input: Code: <html> <head> <title>Test</title> <style type="text/css"> p { margin: 0em; text-indent: 0 } p + p { margin: 0em; text-indent: 1.5em } </style> </head> <body> <p><span>"</span><span>S</span>ally."</p> <p>A mutter.</p> <br/> <p>"Wake up now, Sally."</p> <p>A louder mutter: <em>leeme lone.</em></p> </body> </html> which comes out looking somewhat like this in a browser: Sally A mutter. "Wake up now, Sally." A louder mutter: leeme lone. In the processed/ directory we end up with this html: Code: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Test</title> <meta content="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/><link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/><style type="text/css"> @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; }</style></head> <body class="calibre"> <p class="calibre1"><span>"</span><span>S</span>ally."</p> <p class="calibre1">A mutter.</p> <br class="calibre2"/> <p class="calibre1">"Wake up now, Sally."</p> <p class="calibre1">A louder mutter: <em class="calibre3">leeme lone.</em></p> </body> </html> and .calibre1 in the style sheet has "text-indent: 1.5em". This comes out looking somewhat like this in an epub (all lines indented): Sally A mutter. "Wake up now, Sally." A louder mutter: leeme lone. Note that this behaviour isn't specific to using something like p+p to control indent. From a converted mobi, the input directory ends up with a html that just has a different class="calibre_xxx" tag for the initial paragraph (which in a browser is correctly zero indented) to the rest of the paragraphs (which are indented). I'm looking for a generic fix here - the example above is just the simplest I could create by hand. Is there some setting I'm missing that controls this? Should I also offer some sort of bonus if someone can identify the book from the first four lines? Cheers, Simon.

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