KindleGen: Epub to Mobi conversion

[virtual_ink]

Thanks for your replies. Will check out MobiUnpack!

DiapDealer, I just posted a question in your old thread about hanging paragraphs. I should have posted it here I guess. For now, I'll link to it instead: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=142664

[virtual_ink]

Do you know what code I could use to add an inline space-before a paragraph for in mobi? I've figured out I can use find/replace to quickly add a blank para before quotes on a global level, but I would prefer to keep it in the code, if not in CSS, at least in-line code.

[DiapDealer]

If you don't want to use CSS you can just use:

<p>&nbsp;</p>

Where you want a blank line.

But I tend to create a special CSS class that has an extra-large "margin-top" attribute and assign that class to paragraphs when I want a space (scenebreak or whatever).

<p class="gap">Blah, blah, blah.</p>

And CSS that looks like:

.gap { margin-bottom:0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 1em; margin-left:0; text-indent: 1.2em; }

[dwig]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

If you don't want to use CSS you can just use:

<p>&nbsp;</p>

Where you want a blank line.

But I tend to create a special CSS class that has an extra-large "margin-top" attribute and assign that class to paragraphs when I want a space (scenebreak or whatever).

<p class="gap">Blah, blah, blah.</p>

You could also use an inline style, instead of the CSS, applied to the paragraph needing a preceding space:

<p style="margin-top: 1em;"> ...

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by dwig

You could also use an inline style, instead of the CSS, applied to the paragraph needing a preceding space:

<p style="margin-top: 1em;"> ...

Exactly.

Or the HTML 3.2 code that you'd find in the mobi itself would be:

<p height="0pt" width="1em">Blah, blah, blah.</p>
<p height="1em" width="1em">More and more blah.</p>
<p height="0pt" width="1em">Even more and more blah.</p>

The middle paragraph would have a 1em space preceding it.
("width" defining the paragraph indent and "height" defining the paragraph spacing)

Which has the advantage of not needing to be "translated" by any converter program (but the disadvantage of being easy to forget about and making later edits difficult when tracking down hard-coded "styles.")

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by virtual_ink

I am coverting an epub that contains several indented block quotes to mobi. The kindlegen generated mobi doesn't scrub up too well, the indented quotes are indented on the left hand side (maybe a bit further thanI would like) but not at all on the right hand side. Is there a known way to fix this? If i need to edit the epub CSS first, or perhaps I need to use another program to clean up the mobi? Any help much appreciatted.

The only way to fix this is to go ePub. It's another limitation of Mobipocket.

[DiapDealer]

The only way to fix this is to go ePub. It's another limitation of Mobipocket.

Must you? Really? It's gotten quite tiresome.