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Originally Posted by ibu
The quality of HTML and CSS from the publishers is a shame. A bitter fact....
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.
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Every one of these can be handled by a ePub to ePub conversion except hyphenation. They can be apply automagically by simple setting your choices in Preferences. Calibre's new tabs in the conversions Setup panel offer more choices/options/abilities than what was available in calibre 3 years ago.
I don't use it, but there is a Hyphenate This plugin for calibre that add soft hyphens and may server your needs. check out
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=208534
Also, while Sigil has come back to life and grown, calibre now has its own similar Editor that can serve very well for any additional touchups that you may feel the need to do. Personally, I generally rely on beating on an ePub with calibre's editor, often simply replacing the CSS files with one of my one stock files. I occasionally do a conversion first to see if that will do well enough. I have calibre set to keep the original ePub as well as the new conversion so I can return to the original to try a different tack when needed.