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Originally Posted by RoyInVegas
Here's what I hope to accomplish, here's how I've gone about it so far, and here are the problems I've faced.
1) HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH
I have a JPEG cover and the full text for my novel The Hungarian Game (an international best-selling espionage thriller some 38 years ago), which I want to convert to an eBook. There are a few, very simple bits of formatting criteria that must be applied to the text. First: That almost all paragraphs throughout have their first lines indented, and there is no extra leading between paragraphs. Then: On just a few select paragraphs throughout, I need that extra line of leading - and a flush left first line - to indicate a fresh scene. |
As itimpi posted, Calibre isn't designed to edit the content. It will allow some minor editing as a byproduct of its conversion capabilities. You can convert from an original format to the same format to do this. You can search and replace and you can add CSS, but I'd recommend using Sigil for what you want.
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With calibre, however, when I highlight the appropriate Title, click on "Edit metadata" and choose "Edit medadata individually," the book cover appears - but there's no text field!
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There is a text field there. It's the comments field. If you are looking to find the book content, you won't find it here. This metadata applies to all book formats for this record.
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The calibre manual suggests that I can edit the Cascading Style Sheets and specific HTML code for the text, but I don't see how this can be done without the text. Hello?
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You do this in the format conversion dialog, not in edit metadata. You can also do this in the ebook viewer, but the CSS only applies while reading in the viewer.
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After banging my head against the monitor for an hour or two, I threw in the towel and did what calibre's manual suggested: I exported the results as an ePub and opened the ePub in Sigil for text editing.
But, though I can see both cover and text of the resulting ePub in a viewer, in Sigil I see only the cover. As in calibre, no text! And no indication of how to view text in Sigil's manual.
Wonderful!
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I have seen this occasionally, but you really need to ask for help in the Sigil forum. They can explain how to work around the problem, which relates to your specific ePub.