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swifty.tom · 11-04-2010, 01:51 PM

Hi all, I'm a new owner of a Kindle, and I thought I'd give it a try with some books in my language (Czech), converting them in Calibre. I grabbed one ebook that's in PDB format. Now the problem is, no matter what options I set for the conversion to MOBI, I can never produce the formatting that's in the original printed book:

Code:

    Paragraph 1........
.......................end.
    Paragraph 2........
.......................end.

    Paragraph 3........
.......................end.

Meaning I can't have it output an empty paragraph as a break between logical sections of text (this is a Discworld book, no chapters). Either the paragraphs all stick to each other, indent or not, or they all have a single blank line between them. Either way I can't tell where the break is.

In the original file, this kind of break is indicated by a blank line between lines 2 and 3. Is there any way to force Calibre to turn every single line it encounters, even blank ones, to a paragraph?

11-04-2010, 01:51 PM	#1
swifty.tom Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 12 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Kindle 3	PDB converting ignores blank lines Hi all, I'm a new owner of a Kindle, and I thought I'd give it a try with some books in my language (Czech), converting them in Calibre. I grabbed one ebook that's in PDB format. Now the problem is, no matter what options I set for the conversion to MOBI, I can never produce the formatting that's in the original printed book: Code: Paragraph 1........ .......................end. Paragraph 2........ .......................end. Paragraph 3........ .......................end. Meaning I can't have it output an empty paragraph as a break between logical sections of text (this is a Discworld book, no chapters). Either the paragraphs all stick to each other, indent or not, or they all have a single blank line between them. Either way I can't tell where the break is. In the original file, this kind of break is indicated by a blank line between lines 2 and 3. Is there any way to force Calibre to turn every single line it encounters, even blank ones, to a paragraph?