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Old 10-06-2015, 05:10 PM   #1
Gramlin
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Verse breaks for poetry .pdf

I read poetry journals. Line-spacing and verse-spacing matter.

Is there a way to ask Calibre to convert .pdf --> .mobi so that:

1) If paragraphs has NO space after it, remove space after paragraph
2) If paragraph has space after it, insert blank line 1em

In other words, preserve the line and verse structure, as might be seen in, for example:

"Stasis in darkness.
Then the substanceless blue
Pour of tor and distances.

God’s lioness,
How one we grow,
Pivot of heels and knees!—The furrow

Splits and passes, sister to
The brown arc
Of the neck I cannot catch..."
--(from Ariel, Sylvia Plath)
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