Thread: How to make Sigil live (in calibre)
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Old 12-08-2013, 10:12 AM   #244
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Originally Posted by jackie_w View Post
Obviously I have no idea of any wider ramifications to Tweak of &nbsp entities being temporarily present during the editing process, but given the high percentage of retail epubs which use 'empty &nbsp paragraphs' to create scenebreaks etc, IMHO something needs to be done to avoid the current 'silent stripping'.
Hmm, that would explain the many empty page constructs I'm currently seeing:
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<p> <p>
some other used creating/converting software packages perhaps also "silently" strip, thus rendering the resulting empty page construct useless in (at least my) e-readers.

I used to convert them to &nbsp or & # 160 as jackie_w indicated, but that is now not valid anymore.
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