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Old 08-11-2010, 05:08 AM   #238
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Originally Posted by seajewel View Post
but I was wondering if I could just select blocks of text, within a scene or a chapter for instance, and remove lines.
You can do it, but how easy it will be will depend on how the lines are inserted between paragraphs.

Calibre, and others often create that space by adding a .5em margin above and below each paragraph via the CSS. If you remove these margins you remove the spaces between all objects of the same class paragraph.

Some epubs have breaks between lines hard coded with back to back line breaks every place they want a space between paragraphs.
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<br /><br />
or
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
A non-breaking space in a paragraph to take up a line.

You can adjust the CSS in Sigil and you can find and replace the others. It is just a matter of figuring out how the document you're looking to fine tune handles these spaces.

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