I am new to Calibre. So please excuse me if the question I am asking here is a stupid one.
I noticed that when I convert an e-book, I don't seem to have control over paragraph indentation formatting. I have a background in typography, so I'm kind of worried that when I convert an ePub to ePub (to improve formatting, i.e. quotes, dashes, etc.), I destroy some nice paragraph formatting at the same time.
Basically there are two major forms of formatting paragraphs used in book typesetting with left-to-right texts, around the world. But only one of both is used at a time.
Calibre seems to mix theses two and, at the same time, always indents the 1st paragraph of a chapter/section (which is a big no-no).
So the two styles of paragraph formatting used in books are these:
1.
Normal paragraph formatting. No indentation at all, one empty line between paragraphs:
First Paragraph Lorem ipsum dolor sit. Lorem ipsum
dolor sit. Lorem ipsum dolor sit.
Second Paragraph. Lorem ipsum dolor sit. Lorem ipsum
dolor sit. Lorem ipsum dolor sit.
Third Paragraph. Lorem ipsum dolor sit. Lorem ipsum
dolor sit. Lorem ipsum dolor sit.
2.
Compact paragraph formatting. Indentation of any but the 1st paragraph, no space between paragraphs (that's why you need the indentation):
First Paragraph Lorem ipsum dolor sit. Lorem ipsum
dolor sit. Lorem ipsum dolor sit.Second Paragraph. Lorem ipsum dolor sit. Lorem
ipsum dolor sit. Lorem ipsum dolor sit.Third Paragraph. Lorem ipsum dolor sit. Lorem
ipsum dolor sit. Lorem ipsum dolor sit.
However, what Calibre seems to do (and I seem to have no way to change that) is this:
First Paragraph Lorem ipsum dolor sit. Lorem
ipsum dolor sit. Lorem ipsum dolor sit.
Second Paragraph. Lorem ipsum dolor sit. Lorem
ipsum dolor sit. Lorem ipsum dolor sit.
Third Paragraph. Lorem ipsum dolor sit. Lorem
ipsum dolor sit. Lorem ipsum dolor sit.
It also uses a 0.5 line spacing between paragraphs, another absolute book formatting no-no (I think this comes from MS Word or some other 'word processing' app created by people who know nothing about typesetting
).
My question is: how can I make Calibre apply either of the two paragraph formatting styles I described at the beginning, when converting books to ePub format?
Cheers!
Moritz