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andrewdru · 08-20-2011, 10:29 AM

Thanks for your replies.
I made the files in Word with styles controlling each paragraph and their spacing. I then opened this in Open Office and saved the file as an .odt. I then used Calibre to convert this into an ePub using the iPad output module. It works brilliantly! All my paragraph styles are faithfully re-presented in the Calibre ebook viewer and in iBooks.
However, if I convert either the ePub or the .odt format into Mobi with the Kindle output profile, then my paragraph styles are preserved (more or less) except all paragraph spacing is removed. I'm surprised at this, since everyone else in these forums seems to have problems with paragraph spacing added!
As I said, if I look at the debug files, in the Processed folder, all the paragraph styles seem to have been faithfully rendered in the xhtml. They just aren't there any longer when I view the mobi file in the Calibre ebook reader, in Kindle Previewer (for Mac), Kindle for Mac, or on my iPhone Kindle app.
Sooo... what to do now?
Thanks again for your help.

08-20-2011, 10:29 AM	#4
andrewdru Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Canberra Device: calibre	Thanks for your replies. I made the files in Word with styles controlling each paragraph and their spacing. I then opened this in Open Office and saved the file as an .odt. I then used Calibre to convert this into an ePub using the iPad output module. It works brilliantly! All my paragraph styles are faithfully re-presented in the Calibre ebook viewer and in iBooks. However, if I convert either the ePub or the .odt format into Mobi with the Kindle output profile, then my paragraph styles are preserved (more or less) except all paragraph spacing is removed. I'm surprised at this, since everyone else in these forums seems to have problems with paragraph spacing added! As I said, if I look at the debug files, in the Processed folder, all the paragraph styles seem to have been faithfully rendered in the xhtml. They just aren't there any longer when I view the mobi file in the Calibre ebook reader, in Kindle Previewer (for Mac), Kindle for Mac, or on my iPhone Kindle app. Sooo... what to do now? Thanks again for your help.