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Haim_gds · 09-25-2013, 06:57 AM

Text file lose its previous format (paragraphs and blank lines) when converting large text files for all major formats.

I'm sorry if the question was all ready answered but I've searched the forum and I didn't found that problem appeared in the past.
first of all. I have Boox M92 reader with "coolreader" and "FBReader" reading applications and I'm using calibre version 1.4.0. most of my books are English text file (plain text) that were reformatted for old text-mode reading (80 characters per line and 25 lines per screen and each paragraph start with 4 space characters and without blank line between paragraphs).

When I use calibre for converting text files to ePUB format I'm using the following options:
In "look and feel" I set only the text justification to justify text.
In "EPUB output" I mark 'do not split on page breaks', 'no default cover', 'no SVG cover' and 'flatten EPUB file structure'. i also 'split files larger then:' to a large number (3260).

With small text files it work well, the paragraphs in the file start with some space characters and it easy to read. but for large text files (more the 100KBytes) the contain the text characters only without the new lines and spaces, when using the M92 reading applications and with calibre.

I tried different options and it didn't fixed the problem, I tried different output file format (MOBI, HTML, FB2) and none of them was any better. When reading a large EPUB file (without the conversion) it look normal and well formatted.

Is there a way for fixing that problem?

09-25-2013, 06:57 AM	#1
Haim_gds Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2013 Device: [M92] Onyx boox note	Text file lose its previous format (paragraphs and blank lines) when converting Text file lose its previous format (paragraphs and blank lines) when converting large text files for all major formats. I'm sorry if the question was all ready answered but I've searched the forum and I didn't found that problem appeared in the past. first of all. I have Boox M92 reader with "coolreader" and "FBReader" reading applications and I'm using calibre version 1.4.0. most of my books are English text file (plain text) that were reformatted for old text-mode reading (80 characters per line and 25 lines per screen and each paragraph start with 4 space characters and without blank line between paragraphs). When I use calibre for converting text files to ePUB format I'm using the following options: In "look and feel" I set only the text justification to justify text. In "EPUB output" I mark 'do not split on page breaks', 'no default cover', 'no SVG cover' and 'flatten EPUB file structure'. i also 'split files larger then:' to a large number (3260). With small text files it work well, the paragraphs in the file start with some space characters and it easy to read. but for large text files (more the 100KBytes) the contain the text characters only without the new lines and spaces, when using the M92 reading applications and with calibre. I tried different options and it didn't fixed the problem, I tried different output file format (MOBI, HTML, FB2) and none of them was any better. When reading a large EPUB file (without the conversion) it look normal and well formatted. Is there a way for fixing that problem?