01-30-2011, 02:28 PM | #1 |
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Lines disappearing in E-book viewer
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I've edited my eBook in Sigil and then opened it in Calibre, E-book viewer. Even though it's fine in Sigil, in Calibre there are lines that go missing. (I've attached a screen shot - see near the bottom of the page.) What happens to those lines, and will it look like this once the book is loaded onto a reading device? Thanks! Alda |
01-30-2011, 02:38 PM | #2 |
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I see a blank line, but I'm not sure if it's supposed to say "A devil's the same"....
The Calibre viewer should be fine for reading, and if there is indeed text missing it would help to see the html code for those lines of the book. That said, if you want to see how this would look on your reader, you're better off using Adobe Digital Editions, which is what the software on your Reader is probably based off of. Calibre's viewer (and Sigil's) use QT, which provides good general html rendering capabilities, but QT has a different set of Quirks (and more html rendering features) than most ebook readers, so I wouldn't trust it to show me exactly how things will look on my reader. |
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Could the be a color (white font) issue? |
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Thanks for the quick responses.
@Idolse - I don't actually have a Reader so I can't test this - I live in a part of the world where they haven't caught on and downloading e-books is virtually unheard of. @theducks - I can't see that the code differs from the previous paragraphs, or any other paragraph, really. It looks like this: Quote:
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01-30-2011, 04:52 PM | #5 |
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OK, very bizarre. I tried widening the window in Calibre, and the missing text appeared like magic.
So clearly the text is there. Can anyone make an educated guess as to whether it would appear "normally" in a proper reader? |
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ODD Did it flow or go off to the right first? You might replace (in Code View) the space after "Devil's" just in case some odd non printing character is there. Something is hanging the "flow" |
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01-30-2011, 06:04 PM | #7 |
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When I widened it, it widened off to the right along with the window. Then when I moved it back to the left it narrowed along with the window, then appeared as normal.
So bizarre. |
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OK - I've figured out that it has something to do with justified text.
If I go back into Sigil and remove the justifying option, then the lines appear as normal. The problem then is that some chapters of the book are justified, and some are not. - Anyone have any solutions? Thanks! |
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Are you using Sigil to Justify (SGC3 or SGC4 style code at the top) or is c-meginm-l set to text-align: justify in the style sheet? |
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I was using Sigil to justify - I'm not that comfortable yet with code.
However, as you point out, the code specifies that it should justify: Quote:
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You might want to try re-converting epub to epub with Calibre after adding the justification rules in Sigil. Sigil works by sticking it's own css at the top of every chapter/flow of the book, if you re-convert with Calibre I believe it should merge these together into a single css entry. That might fix whatever QT bug you're seeing.
If you don't have a reading device but want to know how it will look whenever you finally get one, Adobe Digital Editions is still something you can download which will give you a more reliable idea about that. |
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OK, thanks much. I'll give that a try.
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