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eschwartz · 08-20-2015, 12:15 PM

I think your regex is fine...

calibre reformats the comments, putting them into a final div IIRC, and if you have multi-paragraph comments those need to be divided up somehow.

Paragraph == anytime there is a line-break.
In HTML mode line-breaks are collapsed into whitespace and paragraphs respect the <p> tags, but after nuking the tags if you have line-breaks calibre will do it's best to recreate a basic structure, and probably inserted hard line-breaks where it thought (

) you wanted them.

08-20-2015, 12:15 PM	#2
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	I think your regex is fine... calibre reformats the comments, putting them into a final div IIRC, and if you have multi-paragraph comments those need to be divided up somehow. Paragraph == anytime there is a line-break. In HTML mode line-breaks are collapsed into whitespace and paragraphs respect the <p> tags, but after nuking the tags if you have line-breaks calibre will do it's best to recreate a basic structure, and probably inserted hard line-breaks where it thought () you wanted them.