Indentation for numbered/bulletted paragraphs

[BruceEckel]

I'm converting from docx, and both my numbered paragraphs and bulleted paragraphs are getting indented by quite a bit. Ideally, the numbers and bullets would be flush left, in line with all the other paragraphs (which is how the styles have them in the docx).

I'd love to be able to do something in the Word doc to fix this.

I have been able to edit the ePub doc stylesheet, but it feels rather crude -- I have to go find a numbered/bulleted item, see the style (block_n) then go edit that. Would prefer a fix that takes care of itself.

Thanks for any help, and thanks again for such a wonderful tool!

[kovidgoyal]

Conversion should automatically preserve the indentation in the original document. If it is not, then follow the steps here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=186697

[BruceEckel]

Problem: this forum's uploader will not accept .DOCX or .DOCM files. Is there a way to email the files to you directly?

[kovidgoyal]

zip it up, or use the calibre bug tracker.

[BruceEckel]

Zip file attached.

Trace:

Spoiler:

Convert book 1 of 1 (Thinking in Java Director's Cut)
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 2.30.0
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': u'original',
'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\\s*((chapter|book|section|part)\\s+)|((prolog|pr ologue|epilogue)(\\s+|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': None,
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
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'disable_font_rescaling': False,
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'docx_no_pagebreaks_between_notes': False,
'dont_split_on_page_breaks': False,
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'embed_all_fonts': False,
'embed_font_family': None,
'enable_heuristics': False,
'epub_flatten': False,
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'expand_css': False,
'extra_css': None,
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'filter_css': u'',
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'flow_size': 260,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'format_scene_breaks': True,
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
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'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x02270270>,
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'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
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'isbn': None,
'italicize_common_cases': True,
'keep_ligatures': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 5.0,
'margin_left': 5.0,
'margin_right': 5.0,
'margin_top': 5.0,
'markup_chapter_headings': True,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_default_epub_cover': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
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'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.GenericEink object at 0x02270470>,
'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:\\Users\\Bruce\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_ g3sev9\\6bsrhn.opf',
'remove_fake_margins': True,
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'renumber_headings': True,
'replace_scene_breaks': u'',
'search_replace': '[]',
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': None,
'sr1_search': None,
'sr2_replace': None,
'sr2_search': None,
'sr3_replace': None,
'sr3_search': None,
'start_reading_at': None,
'subset_embedded_fonts': False,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'toc_title': None,
'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
'unwrap_lines': True,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: DOCX Input running
on C:\Users\Bruce\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_g3sev9\i hctvr.docx
Converting Word markup to HTML
Converting styles to CSS
Cleaning up redundant markup generated by Word
Generating Table of Contents from headings
Parsing all content...
Parsing index.html ...
Initial parse failed, using more forgiving parsers
Parsing index.html as HTML
Parsing docx.css ...
Reading TOC from NCX...
Merging user specified metadata...
Detecting structure...
Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes...
Source base font size is 10.50000pt
Removing fake margins...
Found 4 items of level: p_1
Found 1 items of level: p_3
Ignoring level p_1
Ignoring level p_3
Cleaning up manifest...
Trimming unused files from manifest...
Creating EPUB Output...
Splitting markup on page breaks and flow limits, if any...
Splitting on page-break at id=toc_id_1
Looking for large trees in index.html...
No large trees found
Split into 2 parts
Generating default cover
Removing anchor from TOC href: index_split_000.html#id_GoBack
Removing anchor from TOC href: index_split_001.html#toc_id_1
EPUB output written to C:\Users\Bruce\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_g3sev9\y jezqk.epub

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by BruceEckel

I'm converting from docx, and both my numbered paragraphs and bulleted paragraphs are getting indented by quite a bit. Ideally, the numbers and bullets would be flush left, in line with all the other paragraphs (which is how the styles have them in the docx).

I'd love to be able to do something in the Word doc to fix this.

I have been able to edit the ePub doc stylesheet, but it feels rather crude -- I have to go find a numbered/bulleted item, see the style (block_n) then go edit that. Would prefer a fix that takes care of itself.

Thanks for any help, and thanks again for such a wonderful tool!

@BruceEckel - what are you using to view the EPUB?

Here's what I see in Calibre's ebook-viewer [2.30] and Adobe digital editions [4.0.3]:-



Which is about what I'd expect from this in Word 2007:-



BR

*I suspect the white boxes in the calibre viewer are caused by my CSS hack.

[BruceEckel]

I'm using Readium, which claims to be very compliant (and it's a fast way to check the doc).

Also in iBooks on the iPad.

What you are seeing is pretty much the same as I see -- very big indents, that don't match what's in the word document.

Also, my h1 font size is not getting reflected; the h1 font seems about the same size as h2.

I've been able to fix all these things by patching the CSS but it would be nice if Calibre took care of it.

[BetterRed]

Yeah, I guess the bullet points are indented a bit too far, but the numbered paragraphs look OK to me. For my personal use none of that wouldn't bother me.

My expectation is that I will have to do some fine tuning with an EPUB editor.

Did you try importing the DOCX directly into book-editor - there's an option in the File menu. Not saying it will produce a better result, but might be worth a try.

BR

[kovidgoyal]

There is no way to fix that. The problem is that the extra padding applied to the list is user agent (HTML renderer) dependant. Some user agents allow it to be overridden, using non-standard CSS properties, some do not. And setting it to zero for the ones that do allow it, can end up breaking the rendering of the list.

The only way to "fix" that would be to not use html <ul> tags for the list. And I think the cure is worse than the disease in that case.

As for font sizes, turn off font size rescaling in the conversion dialog under look & feel.