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Originally Posted by starrigger
I believe the situation Phil_C described is a general problem. In my experience, Calibre seems to either insert blank lines or take them out, but never just leave the format alone. (I haven't made a close study of it, mind you, but I've seen it happen a lot.)
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Problem 1 description - It won't leave the blank lines alone.
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I was actually talking about a more subtle variation on the problem, which is when you want Calibre to remove blank lines between paragraphs because someone built an ebook that way, thinking it was desirable. (In Mobi Creator, for example, where that is one way it can come out.) But while you want those extra blank lines removed, you do not want original spaces between scenes removed, or spaces between title and text, and that kind of thing.
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Problem description 2 - You
don't want Calibre to "leave the blank lines alone," but you want some left alone.
It's the difference between these two cases that confused me. You posted about what I saw as problem 2, then Phil_C said "Exactly!" and described something closer to problem 1.
To me, it seems that problem 2 is hard, while problem 1 isn't. Problem 2 needs "magic" code to detect what you want done (mind reading code?). Problem 1 just needs to spot an error in the conversion process, or at least that's what it looks like from the outside.
I was trying to figure out (if it's problem 1), is it generic or LRF only. If it's problem 1, and it's real, and it's not LRF only, then I'm wondering if it's a bug and easily fixable, or is there something deeper going on that I don't comprehend?
I don't see any way to address problem 2 in a way that will be consistent. OTOH, I'm interested in this if it fits into the "generic problem 1" box. I've been looking for something simple that interests me in the conversion code to get my feet wet in that area.