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MacEachaidh · 11-05-2010, 09:42 PM

Thanks for those thoughts, DDHariman. Really helpful!

I have to confess, I don't use Calibre, for a few reasons, and one of them is the the formatting defaults it uses that you can't then customise - obviously that's personal preference, but it's not just me being finicky. For instance, I dislike the full line break it puts between all paragraphs - I find it disruptive to the flow of reading, and it diminishes the clarity of the use of actual breaks in the layout. I don't know why it does that. I have worked out how to modify the file afterwards in Sigil, but it's a bit of a pain to have to do that to every file, and I don't know how to do it in .mobi or .prc.

Yeah, ID can create html files, but they're very Dreamweaver-centric and have some non-standard Adobe-specific tags. But I can also format documents and convert them to compliant HTML files with WordPerfect, so no dramas there.

Thanks again for your helpful suggestions!

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MacEachaidh Browser Posts: 745 Karma: 578294 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura HD	Thanks for those thoughts, DDHariman. Really helpful! I have to confess, I don't use Calibre, for a few reasons, and one of them is the the formatting defaults it uses that you can't then customise - obviously that's personal preference, but it's not just me being finicky. For instance, I dislike the full line break it puts between all paragraphs - I find it disruptive to the flow of reading, and it diminishes the clarity of the use of actual breaks in the layout. I don't know why it does that. I have worked out how to modify the file afterwards in Sigil, but it's a bit of a pain to have to do that to every file, and I don't know how to do it in .mobi or .prc. Yeah, ID can create html files, but they're very Dreamweaver-centric and have some non-standard Adobe-specific tags. But I can also format documents and convert them to compliant HTML files with WordPerfect, so no dramas there. Thanks again for your helpful suggestions!