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ibu · 02-24-2017, 04:39 PM

The quality of HTML and CSS from the publishers is a shame. A bitter fact.

In the past I cleaned/purified the code of my epubs manually via Sigil.
It needs a lot of time and effort.
And my knowledge about HTML and CSS is very good.

I paused 3 years with eBook reading. Some days ago I bought an H2O. A wonderful display, a joy.

Are there patches, tools, hacks, methods, plugins for Calibre which helps to avoid to manually clean an epub, when you want to control the following design attributes?

* margins
* font
* justification
* hyphenation
* margin between paragraphs
* first-line indent

I like to have same design for every single book. Automatically.

I know that such a goal is absolutely not trivial - the mess of CSS and HTML is incredible in the original epubs.
My hope is, that there are smart heuristics, algorithms, smart tools which fight successfully against that dilemma.

Thanks for your help.

02-24-2017, 04:39 PM	#1
ibu Addict Posts: 264 Karma: 9246 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: Kobo H20, iPhone 6+, Macbook Pro	Avoiding to manually clean an epub? The quality of HTML and CSS from the publishers is a shame. A bitter fact. In the past I cleaned/purified the code of my epubs manually via Sigil. It needs a lot of time and effort. And my knowledge about HTML and CSS is very good. I paused 3 years with eBook reading. Some days ago I bought an H2O. A wonderful display, a joy. Are there patches, tools, hacks, methods, plugins for Calibre which helps to avoid to manually clean an epub, when you want to control the following design attributes? * margins * font * justification * hyphenation * margin between paragraphs * first-line indent I like to have same design for every single book. Automatically. I know that such a goal is absolutely not trivial - the mess of CSS and HTML is incredible in the original epubs. My hope is, that there are smart heuristics, algorithms, smart tools which fight successfully against that dilemma. Thanks for your help.