<pan> issue on Kobo

[sunny1z]

I was reading a dutch translated book..and it shows up wierd because words got broken off in a unlogical way sometimes. In another post someone told me it was because of the <span> and <\SPAN> in the code when I showed him how it showed up in Sigil


<p class="Pplat">‘Hij was er een tijdje bij, j<span>a</span>, d<span>a</span>cht ik,’ zei St<span>a</span>n Reeves. ‘Hij heeft geholpen het een en ander voor de delegatie te regelen.’</p>


the kobo can break of the word "dacht" in englisch="thought"at the end of the sentence like

.....d
acht ik,

it would be like hyphenating T-H-OUGHT
The Kobo thinks he can cut of the words there. I can delete every <span> and <\SPAN> in Sigil by checking ever page and that clears the screen... but I was wondering if there is an easier way in Calibre/Sigil to bulk convert.
Don't know how to solve it in an easy way for all my books

[PeterT]

Please.. There is no need to post the same in three of the forums here (Kobo, calibre and sigil)

[sunny1z]

sorry... did not know if some Calibre experts would dive into the kobo forum. therefore I posted it in different parts

[Toxaris]

Since it is an issue with an ePUB, the correct forum would be the ePUB forum. Not any of the others...

Anyway, it is easy to remove the empty spans via Sigil. Do the following search/replace:

<span>(.*?)<span> and replace it with \1.

[Turtle91]

Don't forget the closing slash on the second span:


<span>(.*?)</span> and replace it with \1.

[Toxaris]

Typed too fast.