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GrannyGrump · 01-04-2016, 06:28 AM

I created an epub in Sigil, which had many nbsp (non-breaking space) entities.

The header included a Doctype declaration, as follows:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <link href="../Styles/pagestyles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
    <link href="../Styles/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
    <title>Unknown</title>
    </head>
  <body>

I loaded the epub into Calibre (version 2.28), called Polish, and selected to "Smarten Punctuation", no other tasks. [EDIT TO ADD: Using Calibre PORTABLE version 2.28 on Win8, if that matters]

When Polish was finshed, it had converted all the nbsp entities to regular spaces, and deleted the Doctype declaration out of the html header:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <link href="../Styles/pagestyles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
    <link href="../Styles/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
    <title>Unknown</title>
    </head>
  <body>

What did I do wrong? Did I have an error in my header information?

(Incidentally, the Smarten Punctuation is a wonderful too. I've never had nbsp in the epub to be smartened before, so never had this problem. )

Thanks for any advice.

01-04-2016, 06:28 AM	#1
GrannyGrump Obsessively Dedicated... Posts: 3,221 Karma: 35037583 Join Date: May 2011 Location: PA {back in the usa!} Device: Sony PRS-T2, ADE on PC	Calibre Polish (Smarten Punctuation) Ate My NBSP I created an epub in Sigil, which had many nbsp (non-breaking space) entities. The header included a Doctype declaration, as follows: Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <link href="../Styles/pagestyles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <link href="../Styles/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <title>Unknown</title> </head> <body> I loaded the epub into Calibre (version 2.28), called Polish, and selected to "Smarten Punctuation", no other tasks. [EDIT TO ADD: Using Calibre PORTABLE version 2.28 on Win8, if that matters] When Polish was finshed, it had converted all the nbsp entities to regular spaces, and deleted the Doctype declaration out of the html header: Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <link href="../Styles/pagestyles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <link href="../Styles/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <title>Unknown</title> </head> <body> What did I do wrong? Did I have an error in my header information? (Incidentally, the Smarten Punctuation is a *wonderful* too. I've never had nbsp in the epub to be smartened before, so never had this problem. ) Thanks for any advice. Last edited by GrannyGrump; 01-04-2016 at 06:41 AM.