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Old 08-13-2011, 09:46 PM   #4
speakingtohe
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I am sure it can be done, but it is not a feature of calibre. I have many epubs which ignore formatting commands from calibre. Some wholly, some just in parts.

It is possibly necessary to put special css into the epub itself.

For example many books have a poem or some such at the start of the book aligned right. This is usually a good thing (to me)when they are left that way.

Other (older) books have a gray background and everything is bold italics or font sizes change randomly. Not IMO a good thing. But calibre does not seem to change them so I use tweak epub or sigil to change the stylesheet.

Perhaps theducks was saying that calibre is not a word processor or publishing app.

I know very little about CSS but I think the block function or procedure might be what you are looking for.

Perhaps post your question in the Sigil forum?

As to the second question, calibre doesn't create the blurry cover. Usually it is from a prior conversion to PDF by some other program and it lingers on when converted to epub.

You used to be able to automatically remove this cover but now I have to either give it a new cover with remove first image checked or use tweak epub and delete cover.jpg. Probably there is a better way but I am unable to find it.

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