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Originally Posted by Anne Marie Weiss
Hi Hitch. I appreciate your advice.
At this point, I have managed to convert the rtf file (after manually editing the pilcrows as you suggested, until it looked perfect) to AZW3, by using Calibre.
And as I am able to export the AZW3 file from Calibre on my computer to my Kindle, I feel that progress is being made. At least this senior is learning.
The remaining issue is that now 100% of the text appears equally double spaced on the Kindle. (No breaks between paragraphs or poems.)
Multiple resources online describe this same problem, and the solution suggested is to EDIT the SPACING of the rtf document by playing with the CSS codes and subsequently converting to AZW3 and read on the Kindle. Until it looks right. Some techies suggest that the problem is the 'line height' vs the 'font height' and others offer other code solutions.
So my question is
1. Do you recommend I try this next?
2. And I still don't know how to see and edit ALL the invisible CSS codes of a rtf document. As I have worked a lot in html, I tried pasting the document into Dreamweaver, which has a CSS option, but that was not completely successful. I cannot seem to find that online, either.
Many thanks!
AMW
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Anne Marie:
Can you take a screenshot, so that I can see what you're talking about? When you say, "double-spaced" I honestly don't know if that's what you really mean, or if you're talking about the typical 1.2em line-height on Kindles, etc.
IF the spacing is truly off, then you need to modify the font size, line-height, or something in the CSS, but...without seeing your CSS, it would be like throwing darts at the wall. Can you show us your CSS, too?
Don't PASTE code into an HTML editor. Typically, it's better to import html into editors like Sigil, which would be my normal recommendation, but as you are using Calibre, perhaps you can convert that RTF to ePUB, and use the Calibre ePUB editor to address what you need.
At this point, you are going to have to learn how to modify CSS, which means learning HTML and CSS to at least some extent.
Hitch