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Joques · 03-17-2015, 04:24 AM

Hello! I am a relative noob to Calibre and epub stylesheet formatting, having learned just enough to get in trouble.

The premise: My preference is to have a small extra space (0.4em) between regular, indented paragraphs, and a larger space between non-indented paragraphs, those usually signifying a change of scenes within a chapter.

Now, I've always noticed that some books have that big space and some don't, and it always bugged me when they didn't, but I never delved into it. But the other day I realized something. I was casually browsing through a newly purchased book in ADE before imprting it to Calibre. "Oh good! This one has the big space between scene changes (is there a word for that?), that's nice". Well, after I imported it into Calibre and ran it through "convert" to get that 0.4em space between regular paragraphs that I so crave, the big space between scene changes had disappeared! OH NO! Calibre is messing with my formatting in a way I never intended for it to do!

Now, it really is no huge deal to just go into the stylesheet of a book, finding the relevant css property and appending 1.5em to top padding. BUT is there some way to have Calibre not behave like this? The _only_ box I have checked in "look & feel" in Convert is "insert blank line between paragraphs". Can Calibre really not do this without removing the big space before non-indented paragraphs? It seems strange.

03-17-2015, 04:24 AM	#1
Joques Addict Posts: 294 Karma: 107414 Join Date: May 2013 Device: Kobo Glo	Question about Calibre formatting Hello! I am a relative noob to Calibre and epub stylesheet formatting, having learned just enough to get in trouble. The premise: My preference is to have a small extra space (0.4em) between regular, indented paragraphs, and a larger space between non-indented paragraphs, those usually signifying a change of scenes within a chapter. Now, I've always noticed that some books have that big space and some don't, and it always bugged me when they didn't, but I never delved into it. But the other day I realized something. I was casually browsing through a newly purchased book in ADE before imprting it to Calibre. "Oh good! This one has the big space between scene changes (is there a word for that?), that's nice". Well, after I imported it into Calibre and ran it through "convert" to get that 0.4em space between regular paragraphs that I so crave, the big space between scene changes had disappeared! OH NO! Calibre is messing with my formatting in a way I never intended for it to do! Now, it really is no huge deal to just go into the stylesheet of a book, finding the relevant css property and appending 1.5em to top padding. BUT is there some way to have Calibre not behave like this? The _only_ box I have checked in "look & feel" in Convert is "insert blank line between paragraphs". Can Calibre really not do this without removing the big space before non-indented paragraphs? It seems strange.