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Losing paragraph format in txt to epub with block and markdown - REASON FOUND

I am using paragraph style block and formatting style markdown.

The markdown appears to work but the text paragraphs are being combined even though I am separating them with a blank line.

What am I missing here? It seems calibre is ignoring the block paragraph style once the markdown preprocessing has been done.

Thanks.

Input:
Quote:
# THE TITLE OF THE BOOK

# An Author

with acknowledgement to:

The first person,
and the second person, whom I'd like on a line (but not a paragraph) of their own.

Here is a special mention, in its own paragraph, of the third person.

This is the end paragraph of the acknowledgement section.

---

### Version History
It would be nice to have some sort of table facility without using tabs or spaces or dots.

Version.....Date...............Editor

1.0.........October 2013.......Me

---

### Another Heading

I wanted to convert a text base file into epub format. I wanted to use markdown too so that I could have nicer formatting in e-readers that could use it in text format

I wanted to use calibre as the conversion engine.

What would be nice would be to allow hard end of lines.
A bit like this.
And this
so I could have lines of things without making them lists but keeping single line spacing.
Output:
Quote:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Unknown</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
</head>
<body>
<h1>THE TITLE OF THE BOOK</h1>
<h1>An Author</h1>
<p>with acknowledgement to:
The first person, and the second person, whom I'd like on a line (but not a paragraph) of their own.
Here is a special mention, in its own paragraph, of the third person.
This is the end paragraph of the acknowledgement section.</p>
<hr/>
<h3>Version History It would be nice to have some sort of table facility without using tabs or spaces or dots.</h3>
<p>Version.....Date...............Editor
1.0.........October 2013.......Me</p>
<hr/>
<h3>Another Heading</h3>
<p>I wanted to convert a text base file into epub format. I wanted to use markdown too so that I could have nicer formatting in e-readers that could use it in text format
I wanted to use calibre as the conversion engine.
What would be nice would be to allow hard end of lines. A bit like this. And this so I could have lines of things without making them lists but keeping single line spacing.</p>
</body></html>
Having discovered how to do markdown hard breaks with 2 spaces at the end of a line I put my source through Dingus and here is the result. Perhaps calibre's Python markdown processing is the difference?
Quote:
<h1>THE TITLE OF THE BOOK</h1>

<h1>An Author</h1>

<p>with acknowledgement to:</p>

<p>The first person, <br />
and the second person, whom I'd like on a line (but not a paragraph) of their own.</p>

<p>Here is a special mention, in its own paragraph, of the third person.</p>

<p>This is the end paragraph of the acknowledgement section.</p>

<hr />

<h3>Version History</h3>

<p>It would be nice to have some sort of table facility without using tabs or spaces or dots.</p>

<p>Version.....Date...............Editor</p>

<p>1.0.........October 2013.......Me</p>

<hr />

<h3>Another Heading</h3>

<p>I wanted to convert a text base file into epub format. I wanted to use markdown too so that I could have nicer formatting in e-readers that could use it in text format</p>

<p>I wanted to use calibre as the conversion engine.</p>

<p>What would be nice would be to allow hard end of lines. <br />
A bit like this. <br />
And this <br />
so I could have lines of things without making them lists but keeping single line spacing.</p>

Last edited by Tattvadarzin; 10-17-2013 at 08:22 AM. Reason: New information
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