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kovidgoyal · 11-10-2013, 08:37 PM

I'm not sure how robust that can be made, without major efforts. As theducks points out, "preceded by" is not well defined in html. For example, all of the following snippets will render as paragraphs immediately preceded by a title:

Code:

<h1>title</h1>
<p>...

<h1>title</h1>
<div><div><p>

<h1>title</h1>
<table><td><p>...

<h1>t</h1>
<div><img src="blank.png"><p>

<h1>title</h1>
<p style="display:none or visibility:hidden"><p>...

So while it could be made to work for the common case of heading tag followed by simple <p> of <div>, it wont be particularly robust. And then there is the problem that it will require a separate option to control, since there will be people that like the current behavior.

11-10-2013, 08:37 PM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,378 Karma: 27230406 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I'm not sure how robust that can be made, without major efforts. As theducks points out, "preceded by" is not well defined in html. For example, all of the following snippets will render as paragraphs immediately preceded by a title: Code: <h1>title</h1> <p>... <h1>title</h1> <div><div><p> <h1>title</h1> <table><td><p>... <h1>t</h1> <div><img src="blank.png"><p> <h1>title</h1> <p style="display:none or visibility:hidden"><p>... So while it could be made to work for the common case of heading tag followed by simple <p> of <div>, it wont be particularly robust. And then there is the problem that it will require a separate option to control, since there will be people that like the current behavior.