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snarkophilus · 05-27-2011, 09:52 AM

Hi folks,

I've had a search through the conversion sub-forum and couldn't see this mentioned. Please direct me elsewhere if that has been covered already.

I've got a simple html example where there is no indent in the first paragraph and indents for following paragraphs. When I enable debug output, I can see the input html basically unchanged in the input/ parsed/ and structure/ directories, but in the processed/ directory the html with the calibre class tags added per paragraph are all the indented tag.

Here's my html input:

Code:

<html>
  <head>
      <title>Test</title>
      <style type="text/css">
          p { margin: 0em; text-indent: 0 }
          p + p { margin: 0em; text-indent: 1.5em }
      </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p><span>"</span><span>S</span>ally."</p>
    <p>A mutter.</p>
    <br/>
    <p>"Wake up now, Sally."</p>
    <p>A louder mutter: <em>leeme lone.</em></p>
  </body>
</html>

which comes out looking somewhat like this in a browser:

Sally

A mutter.

"Wake up now, Sally."

A louder mutter: leeme lone.

In the processed/ directory we end up with this html:

Code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
      <title>Test</title>
      <meta content="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/><link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/><style type="text/css">
                @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; }</style></head>
  <body class="calibre">
    <p class="calibre1"><span>"</span><span>S</span>ally."</p>
    <p class="calibre1">A mutter.</p>
    <br class="calibre2"/>
    <p class="calibre1">"Wake up now, Sally."</p>
    <p class="calibre1">A louder mutter: <em class="calibre3">leeme lone.</em></p>
  </body>
</html>

and .calibre1 in the style sheet has "text-indent: 1.5em". This comes out looking somewhat like this in an epub (all lines indented):

Sally

A mutter.

"Wake up now, Sally."

A louder mutter: leeme lone.

Note that this behaviour isn't specific to using something like p+p to control indent. From a converted mobi, the input directory ends up with a html that just has a different class="calibre_xxx" tag for the initial paragraph (which in a browser is correctly zero indented) to the rest of the paragraphs (which are indented). I'm looking for a generic fix here - the example above is just the simplest I could create by hand.

Is there some setting I'm missing that controls this?

Should I also offer some sort of bonus if someone can identify the book from the first four lines?

Cheers,
Simon.

05-27-2011, 09:52 AM	#1
snarkophilus Wannabe Connoisseur Posts: 426 Karma: 2516674 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Geelong, Australia Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura 2, Sony PRS-T1, Sony PRS-350, Palm TX	Conversion adds indents not in original input Hi folks, I've had a search through the conversion sub-forum and couldn't see this mentioned. Please direct me elsewhere if that has been covered already. I've got a simple html example where there is no indent in the first paragraph and indents for following paragraphs. When I enable debug output, I can see the input html basically unchanged in the input/ parsed/ and structure/ directories, but in the processed/ directory the html with the calibre class tags added per paragraph are all the indented tag. Here's my html input: Code: <html> <head> <title>Test</title> <style type="text/css"> p { margin: 0em; text-indent: 0 } p + p { margin: 0em; text-indent: 1.5em } </style> </head> <body> <p><span>"</span><span>S</span>ally."</p> <p>A mutter.</p> <br/> <p>"Wake up now, Sally."</p> <p>A louder mutter: <em>leeme lone.</em></p> </body> </html> which comes out looking somewhat like this in a browser: Sally A mutter. "Wake up now, Sally." A louder mutter: leeme lone. In the processed/ directory we end up with this html: Code: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Test</title> <meta content="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/><link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/><style type="text/css"> @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; }</style></head> <body class="calibre"> <p class="calibre1"><span>"</span><span>S</span>ally."</p> <p class="calibre1">A mutter.</p> <br class="calibre2"/> <p class="calibre1">"Wake up now, Sally."</p> <p class="calibre1">A louder mutter: <em class="calibre3">leeme lone.</em></p> </body> </html> and .calibre1 in the style sheet has "text-indent: 1.5em". This comes out looking somewhat like this in an epub (all lines indented): Sally A mutter. "Wake up now, Sally." A louder mutter: leeme lone. Note that this behaviour isn't specific to using something like p+p to control indent. From a converted mobi, the input directory ends up with a html that just has a different class="calibre_xxx" tag for the initial paragraph (which in a browser is correctly zero indented) to the rest of the paragraphs (which are indented). I'm looking for a generic fix here - the example above is just the simplest I could create by hand. Is there some setting I'm missing that controls this? Should I also offer some sort of bonus if someone can identify the book from the first four lines? Cheers, Simon.