Thread: new lines / line feeds in file?
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Old 03-28-2019, 12:35 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Given that a reflowable epub simply shows what is between the opening and closing tags, using heuristics in an attempt to unwrap lines is going to be somewhat futile. The LFs embedded in the epub from FadedPages show as a space in all the renderers I tested (and that includes a couple of really dumb, disregard the book's CSS renderers).
Firstly, I always assumed the unwrap heuristics only applied to PDF and similar formats. It didn't seem to make sense for an epub. But, playing with it with that book, it does have an affect on the the epub. And using 0.40 on it, does split the existing paragraphs in what a probably the wrong places. As I don't like artificial line breaks like this has, I had a play to see if I could achieve what I think @lumpynose wants. Setting it high, to 1, means basically each line was split to a paragraph. Setting it low, to 0.05, unwrapped it correctly to remove the extra line breaks.
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Both calibre's editor and Sigil will happily remove those unneeded LFs when you prettify the file. Sigil and calibre's editor do have some differences which makes it handy to have choices.
The calibre editor prettify doesn't fix this. It won't unwrap lines like this. I have a regex that does it for me as it is a fairly common thing. I just find it offensive
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