[Old Thread] Convert epub to mobi with wide left margin on Kindle - Page 7

dwig · 10-08-2011, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by allowingtoo

...There was nothing in her books in a block quote so I have no idea why the block quote code other than it was for the Mobi format. ...

I encountered one ePub a few months ago that fooled calibre. The ePub's CSS had a style named ".blockquote" (NOT a style for "blockquote" as a tag). The original ePub used this for all <p> tags as <p class="blockquote">. Calibre converted all of these to <blockquote> tags in the MOBI regardless of any zero width margins placed in the ".blockquote" style definition.

I discovered this by converting the MOBI back to an ePub and editing in Sigil. The fix was simply to do a global rename on the ".blockquote" styled tags leaving them as simply <p>.

allowingtoo · 11-15-2011, 05:25 PM

dwig thank you! Why did I not think of that? I ran across another one and I thought it had defeated me until I read what you did. Sure enough, it worked. Thank you!

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11-15-2011, 05:25 PM	#92
allowingtoo Bibliophile Posts: 154 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Amazon	dwig thank you! Why did I not think of that? I ran across another one and I thought it had defeated me until I read what you did. Sure enough, it worked. Thank you!

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