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Coolmeadow · 06-01-2016, 09:02 PM

Well, I played with it for a while last night, and it's obvious....I have no clue what I'm doing! What little I've done with HTML in Calibre is looking at patterns and duplicating (copy and paste) what I need to do to make it look the way I want. Three books in the last 9 months, each over 125,000 words, and no issues until now. And it drives me nuts that every time I load a book to into Calibre to edit, the HTML is totally different. I have to start completely over and figure it out again. So I loaded just the section I want different and got it straightened out. Moved the chapters around so I could make this new section stand on it's own so I can try to do the white on black on just that piece and copy and past it's HTML into book 4 in a section all it's own .... It has it all skewed up again. Font sizes are even erratic, and the HTML is totally different and bizarre. So I go back to Word and clean that up after all the experimenting I've been doing, and load it as a new book. Even stranger effects. Is there a way to make it react the same way every time? Or is there something I'm doing weird in my Word processor that makes it change every time?
Back to the beginning I go. Jim.

06-01-2016, 09:02 PM	#5
Coolmeadow Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2015 Device: Kindle	Well, I played with it for a while last night, and it's obvious....I have no clue what I'm doing! What little I've done with HTML in Calibre is looking at patterns and duplicating (copy and paste) what I need to do to make it look the way I want. Three books in the last 9 months, each over 125,000 words, and no issues until now. And it drives me nuts that every time I load a book to into Calibre to edit, the HTML is totally different. I have to start completely over and figure it out again. So I loaded just the section I want different and got it straightened out. Moved the chapters around so I could make this new section stand on it's own so I can try to do the white on black on just that piece and copy and past it's HTML into book 4 in a section all it's own .... It has it all skewed up again. Font sizes are even erratic, and the HTML is totally different and bizarre. So I go back to Word and clean that up after all the experimenting I've been doing, and load it as a new book. Even stranger effects. Is there a way to make it react the same way every time? Or is there something I'm doing weird in my Word processor that makes it change every time? Back to the beginning I go. Jim. Last edited by Coolmeadow; 06-01-2016 at 09:10 PM.