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A number of months ago, I put in a request to fix a bug in Calibre (#4887) that I encountered when converting a PRC file to a Mobi file. Any paragraph beginning with an italicized word (and, I susbsequently found, one that was in bold type) would not be indented, but would be foreced to the left-hand margin. The problem has never been addressed.
I now have Calibre version 0.7.22, and have found all of a sudden that things have changed when converting these files. Regular paragraphs for most files are now indented 7 spaces and italicized-beginning paragraphs are indented 5 spaces.
For my purposes, this is a big improvement. But, for some reason in some files the former problem of no indentation of italicized-beginning paragraphs still exists, and the only variable I've found between the files, is the size of them. David Weber's "Mutineer's Moon," which is 0.4 MB in length, gives me the improved indentation, but Weber's "Empire from Ashes," which is 1.4 MB in length (and contains Mutineer's Moon as one of its novels) converts the old way, with no indentation of the italicized paragraphs (and all paragraphs that do get indented are indented 3 spaces).
I should say these are all files that are prepared the same way: using Book Designer to format them, Notepad to edit them, and Mobipocket Creator to create the PRC books.
I'd be interested in any ideas anyone has about the problem and suggestions about anything I can do to be sure that all paragraphs have some indentation. Sure, it'd be nice if they all had the same kind of indentation, for some is way better than none. If, as sometimes happens, the author has pages of italicized content, with no indentation it all blurs together as one block of italicized prose.
Jim
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