Thread: editing
View Single Post
Old 10-30-2011, 11:45 AM   #2
theducks
Well trained by Cats
theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
theducks's Avatar
 
Posts: 31,098
Karma: 60358908
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: The Central Coast of California
Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A
Quote:
Originally Posted by Arktel View Post
I created an ePUB file from Pages (mac) and opened it in Sigil, however, the line spacing between text is too big in the whole document. After removing a bunch of lines and saving the file, I closed Sigil then reopened the document to test. Alas the line changes did not take. Any ideas why?

However, I did centre some illustrations and those changes worked.

Also the front cover is in the Images folder on the left but the back cover is nowhere to be found. So then I added the back cover but it was too big. How do you delete an image from the Book Browser section of Sigil, or alternatively make the image smaller within Sigil?

Thanks, I appreciate guidance. I checked the manual but couldn't see any answers.

Menkit
You might not have a 'Line Space' issue, but a 'hard return' issue (if this was a from scan conversion) that treats each line as a paragraph (with paragraph margins being what you see).
Switch to Codeview.
if every line ends with a </p>, that is your problem. You need to join the incorrectly ended lines. (careful REGEX. or you might pass the book through a Calibre conversion with Heuristics enabled. )

Line/paragraph spacing could be done a number of ways:
1: in the CSS for the paragraph style. line-space: 1.2em

2: (IMHO bad) <p class="someclass">&nbsp</p>. Use another style that has a bigger, margin-top: and/or margin-bottom: in the CSS to effect a 'break'.
theducks is offline   Reply With Quote