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Originally Posted by julid
Right. I see, when I look at the html 35 lines of this between the end of chapter one and the beginning of chapter two: *I'm removing some of the brackets so you can see the code* !--[if !supportEmptyParas]-->*</span></span></b</p
p class="MsoNormal"><b class="calibre1"><span class="calibre2"><span class="calibre3"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]-->*</span></span></b></p>
p class="MsoNormal">
etc. Now I suppose that's it trying to replicate the carriage returns? But I doubt it's 35 lines worth. Why is it doing that? That's what I can't understand. I could manually go through and cut the offending extra lines of code no problem. It's just time consuming and I've noticed the size of the blocks of this code vary from chapter to chapter. Odd that, since the chapter openings are about the same, 1/3 down the page in Word. So I'd like to nix the problem in the original html source if I can before it gets onto the ereader in the first place.  I'm sorry if I'm making this a little more complicated than it needs to be. |
It sounds like Microsoft Word is your problem - it's creating the empty lines and Calibre is just converting them for you. I'm not certain you're using Word in the right way though. You shouldn't put 'any' manual line feeds between your chapter endings/beginnings. You should instead use Word's built in heading/layout tools. Insert a pagebreak if you want a page break by using the insert page break function, and assign a heading style to the chapter heading that adds suitable space to the top margins for you - it may very well be that Word's default heading styles aren't to your liking, but you can change those styles, google around for instructions based on your version of Word.