I actually haven't noticed the problem of Calibre removing Scene Breaks. I also set it to remove lines between paragraphs--I hate wasting space that way, personally, and I just double checked, and at least in the books I converted, the scene break lines were not removed. I am bothered, however, that lines that are meant to be poetry, for instance, at the beginning of a chapter, have the first line indented after conversion, instead of being all orderly without indentation as in the original book before conversion. So a poem that would look like
Random poetry
blah blah blah
gets converted to
Random poetry
blah blah blah
It's a minor issue compared to removing scene breaks, but I wonder if there's any way for calibre to detect this sort of thing and not indent the first line of poems. I have to have the indents because I remove lines between paragraphs, else the page looks too busy, but I would prefer not to have indents in poetry.. any thoughts?
ETA: i guess i should just try to mess around with some editing by hand through SIGIL. I just wanted to add that I love Calibre, and it has made my experience owning a Sony 505 the best that it could be! Thanks!
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
There is no reliable way to distinguish the cases, for example, centered text may or may not need a blank line before it (instead it could have a larger margin-top and margin-bottom), or the author may not have intended it to have spaces. While a given technique may work on some set of cases, it wont work on all, so rather than have "magic" behavior, I chose to keep it simple and predictable.
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