Here are a few suggestions that might help. The links provided point to the relevent sections of the online manual found at
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/index.html.
For the news recipes you can use the
extra_css instance variable to add css properties to the ebook (See
Slicing and Dicing):
Code:
extra_css = '''
p, div {
margin-bottom: 1em;
}
'''
To disable the fetching of CSS from the website use
no_stylesheet. (See
Replacing Article Styles):
Code:
no_stylesheet = True
To change the CSS during conversion use
Conversion Options -> Look & Feel (See
Look & Feel). The picture below shows you where you can change the spacing between paragraphs:
