MobileRead Forums - View Single Post

BobC · 05-13-2013, 02:24 PM

I see similar to roger64. I had a look at writer2xthml and it is quite out of date and only in beta anyway so I took your text and re-created it using LibreOffice 4 with the Writer2Epub extension but with a few spaces changed to what LO uses for non-breaking spaces (control-shift-space).

When I looked at the epub file generated all the non-breaking spaces from the odt document had disappeared and there was only one present - a placeholder in a blank line :

Code:

<p>&nbsp;</p>

not something I intended but clearly something that the conversion had inserted. At least it proved that if there had been proper html   entities where I had put them they would have been visible.

HOWEVER where I had a non-breaking space in the original it had A000 rather than 2000 as the hex value in the output.

So I then re-examined your test document and found the same - all the non-breaking spaces are coded as A000 rather than as an HTML entity.

It appears the "deprecated" Sigil would convert the A000 to   whereas 7.2 doesn't.

BobC

05-13-2013, 02:24 PM	#22
BobC Guru Posts: 691 Karma: 3026110 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Lancashire, U.K. Device: BeBook 1, BeBook Pure, Kobo Glo, (and HD),Energy Sistem EReader Pro +	I see similar to roger64. I had a look at writer2xthml and it is quite out of date and only in beta anyway so I took your text and re-created it using LibreOffice 4 with the Writer2Epub extension but with a few spaces changed to what LO uses for non-breaking spaces (control-shift-space). When I looked at the epub file generated all the non-breaking spaces from the odt document had disappeared and there was only one present - a placeholder in a blank line : Code: <p> </p> not something I intended but clearly something that the conversion had inserted. At least it proved that if there had been proper html   entities where I had put them they would have been visible. HOWEVER where I had a non-breaking space in the original it had A000 rather than 2000 as the hex value in the output. So I then re-examined your test document and found the same - all the non-breaking spaces are coded as A000 rather than as an HTML entity. It appears the "deprecated" Sigil would convert the A000 to   whereas 7.2 doesn't. BobC Last edited by BobC; 05-13-2013 at 02:27 PM. Reason: Subject and object must agree in number.