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Originally Posted by Starson17
I can't answer this, and I have no idea what the problem is. I'm sure it's quite obvious to you and to those who experience your problem, but not to others (at least not to me). Of course, you have no obligation to clearly explain what happens and why you don't like it, but there are some developers out there, and some of them may be willing to give you a hand by at least looking at the issue to see if it has a simple solution.
Even if there's no one who can help you, I'm interested in what the problem is, if you feel like giving more detail.
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starrigger explained it above, but Ill try again.
There are certain blank lines in most any novel, e.g. to denote a change in scene, or after an epigraph at the beginning of a chapter, or after a chapter title.
Calibre has only two choices for paragraph spacing: ALL or NONE.
So when converting lrf to epub, Calibre either: 1) places blank lines between ALL paragraphs of the novel, or 2) removes ALL blank lines including the ones I want to keep as in my examples above.
What I want is to keep the original paragraph spacing --- none, except for special cases as above.
The Calibre manual says something about editing the HTML code in each individual ebook to account for this. That is no solution when I want to convert hundreds of books from lrf to epub for use on future readers.
It seems to me that if a blank line exists in my lrf, it must somehow be coded as such (how else could it be there?), so Calibre ought to be able to leave it as is.
In the Calibre Look and Feel conversion choices, there is a box for removing spaces between paragraphs, and a box for adding blank lines between paragraphs. I don't want either. If I leave both unchecked, the converted epub SHOULD retain the original spacing from the original ebook. Instead, the result is the same as if I checked the add blank lines box.
If this could be corrected, I could easily convert my hundreds of files to epub. All help is appreciated.