Seeing something really weird. I've got a book that I've been editing using markdown on and off for the last few months.
The book has always converted quickly - about a minute or so - until 7.38 or some other very recent release. Now when I convert from the GUI it just hangs. As I write this I've been waiting 12 minutes with no progress. The debug output just shows the conversion options and nothing else.
The really weird thing is that conversion from the CLI is just fine. I haven't duplicated every command line option in the CLI that I see in the GUI, but I've tried most of the important ones, and so far no problem.
Here are the resolved options in the GUI:
Code:
Convert book 1 of 1 (Contact)
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.7.38
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': u'justify',
'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., 'chapter|book|section|part\\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'none',
'comments': None,
'cover': '/var/folders/Rm/Rm6mzVkCH6GuTtIFsFdGnU+++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_0.7.38_tmp_m6GdI6/calibre_0.7.38_D9ZfEs.jpeg',
'debug_pipeline': u'/Users/username/calibredev/temp',
'disable_font_rescaling': True,
'dont_split_on_page_breaks': False,
'epub_flatten': False,
'extra_css': u'body{font-family: serif}\np {margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0.3em}\n.chapterheader {border: transparent; border-top:3px solid #000}\n.chapternum{font-size: 4em}\ndiv.sectionblock blockquote p {font-size: 85%; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0em}\nblockquote {margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.3em}\np + blockquote {margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left:15%}\n.den {font-size: 80%;}\n.num {font-size: 80%; vertical-align:.5ex}\n.pb {page-break-before : always;}\n.sectionblock {width : 60%; margin-left : 35%; margin-top : 5em}\n.softbreak{display: block; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 2em; margin-top: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 1.2em}\np.initial {text-indent: 0;}\nspan.drop {font-size: 300%; font-weight: bold; line-height: .8; height: 1em; float: left; margin: -0.1em 0.125em -0.2em 0em;}\nspan.first {margin-left: -0.5em; white-space: pre; font-size: 80%; font-weight: bold}\nspan.firstafterA {margin-left: -0.75em; font-size: 80%; font-weight: bold}\nspan.firstafterL {margin-left: -1.2em; font-size: 80%; font-weight: bold}\nspan.smcps { white-space: pre; font-size: 80%}\np.initial + p {clear: left;}\nspan.predrop {font-size: 25%; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: top; line-height: 1.9;}\nh2 {text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0em}\nh2 + h3 {text-align: right; font-size: 2.5em; margin-top: 0em}\nblockquote > blockquote {padding-left: 20%}\nblockquote > blockquote p {text-indent: 2em}\nblockquote > blockquote:first-child {text-indent: 0}',
'extract_to': None,
'flow_size': 260,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'footer_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)',
'formatting_type': u'markdown',
'header_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)',
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x106fb5410>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'keep_ligatures': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': u'//h:h2[re:test(., ".*", "i")]',
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 5.0,
'margin_left': 5.0,
'margin_right': 5.0,
'margin_top': 5.0,
'markdown_disable_toc': True,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'minimum_line_height': 0.0,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_default_epub_cover': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'no_svg_cover': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.SonyReaderOutput object at 0x106fb5c10>,
'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",
'paragraph_type': u'auto',
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preprocess_html': True,
'preserve_cover_aspect_ratio': False,
'preserve_spaces': True,
'pretty_print': True,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': '/var/folders/Rm/Rm6mzVkCH6GuTtIFsFdGnU+++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_0.7.38_tmp_m6GdI6/calibre_0.7.38_6XKVK9.opf',
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_footer': False,
'remove_header': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'smarten_punctuation': True,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
And here's the working subset I've entered in the CLI:
Code:
ebook-convert Contact\ -\ Carl\ Sagan.txt Contact\ -\ Carl\ Sagan-text.epub --formatting-type=auto --paragraph-type=auto -v --debug-pipeline=/Users/leedolsen/calibredev/temp/ --extra-css='body{font-family: serif}\np {margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0.3em}\n.chapterheader {border: transparent; border-top:3px solid #000}\n.chapternum{font-size: 4em}\ndiv.sectionblock blockquote p {font-size: 85%; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0em}\nblockquote {margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.3em}\np + blockquote {margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left:15%}\n.den {font-size: 80%;}\n.num {font-size: 80%; vertical-align:.5ex}\n.pb {page-break-before : always;}\n.sectionblock {width : 60%; margin-left : 35%; margin-top : 5em}\n.softbreak{display: block; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 2em; margin-top: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 1.2em}\np.initial {text-indent: 0;}\nspan.drop {font-size: 300%; font-weight: bold; line-height: .8; height: 1em; float: left; margin: -0.1em 0.125em -0.2em 0em;}\nspan.first {margin-left: -0.5em; white-space: pre; font-size: 80%; font-weight: bold}\nspan.firstafterA {margin-left: -0.75em; font-size: 80%; font-weight: bold}\nspan.firstafterL {margin-left: -1.2em; font-size: 80%; font-weight: bold}\nspan.smcps { white-space: pre; font-size: 80%}\np.initial + p {clear: left;}\nspan.predrop {font-size: 25%; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: top; line-height: 1.9;}\nh2 {text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0em}\nh2 + h3 {text-align: right; font-size: 2.5em; margin-top: 0em}\nblockquote > blockquote {padding-left: 20%}\nblockquote > blockquote p {text-indent: 2em}\nblockquote > blockquote:first-child {text-indent: 0}' --smarten-punctuation --preprocess-html
Any ideas as to what configured item might be causing the hang?