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bizzybody · 01-09-2020, 05:37 AM

The latest free offering from TOR "Mohs 5.5 Megastructures" has several sections that when the reader is switched to white text on a black background, are stuck as some variety of grey text on a white background. In other words, whomever put together the EPUB done did something wrong, at several apparently random spots throughout. (Would be nice if Calibre could auto-fix a problem like this.)

Here's an example clipped from the foreword. All those c_current__and__white_background and c_current__and__white_background1 need to go away, but not the italic part of c_current__and__white_background__and__italic

<h2 class="p_heading_">Colombo, Sri Lanka, 11/2019</h2>
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I am from Sri Lanka, a little island just below India. In the world of scifi, Sri Lanka is the last resting place of Sir Arthur C. Clarke. His remains lie interred next those of Leslie Ekanayake, the brother of Clarke’s landlord. 
To say that Sir Arthur was a legend in his own lifetime is an understatement. He settled down here in 1956, when Sri Lanka was still Ceylon. From here he delivered to the world a tremendous output of thought that cemented his status in history. He nodded towards his adopted homeland often; he placed his space elevator close by, and his favourite novel - The Songs of Distant Earth (1986) was about a planet named Thalassa, which in Sinhala breaks down very clearly into “Under the palm trees”. He was the Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka’s leading technological university, for 23 years. He wore a white sarong and shirt - the national dress - as part of the Sri Lankan delegation to the United Nations disarmament talks in the 1980. Sri Lanka bestowed upon him the titles of Vidya Jyothi ('Luminary of Science); Sahithyaratna ('Gem of Literature'); and the Lankabhimanya ('Pride of Lanka'), the highest honor a civilian can achieve. 
All of which is to say: in Sri Lanka, Sir Arthur was science fiction. He was an icon of intellect. We grew

01-09-2020, 05:37 AM	#1
bizzybody Addict Posts: 294 Karma: 7742186 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Idaho, USA Device: Various PalmOS PDAs, Android Phones, Sharper Image Literati	How do I remove unwanted highlighting? The latest free offering from TOR "Mohs 5.5 Megastructures" has several sections that when the reader is switched to white text on a black background, are stuck as some variety of grey text on a white background. In other words, whomever put together the EPUB done did something wrong, at several apparently random spots throughout. (Would be nice if Calibre could auto-fix a problem like this.) Here's an example clipped from the foreword. All those c_current__and__white_background and c_current__and__white_background1 need to go away, but not the italic part of c_current__and__white_background__and__italic <h2 class="p_heading_"><span class="c_current__and__white_background">Colombo, Sri Lanka, 11/2019</span></h2> <p class="p_normal">*</p> <p class="p_normal">I am from Sri Lanka, a little island just below India. In the world of scifi, Sri Lanka is the last resting place of Sir Arthur C. Clarke. His remains lie interred next those of Leslie Ekanayake, the brother of Clarke’s landlord. </p> <p class="p_normal"><span class="c_current__and__white_background1">To say that Sir Arthur was a legend in his own lifetime is an understatement. He settled down here in 1956, when Sri Lanka was still Ceylon. From here he delivered to the world a tremendous output of thought that cemented his status in history. He nodded towards his adopted homeland often; he placed his space elevator close by, and his favourite novel - The Songs of Distant Earth (1986) was about a planet named Thalassa, which in Sinhala breaks down very clearly into “Under the palm trees”. He was the Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka’s leading technological university, for 23 years. He wore a white sarong and shirt - the national dress - as part of the Sri Lankan delegation to the United Nations disarmament talks in the 1980. Sri Lanka bestowed upon him the titles of Vidya Jyothi ('Luminary of Science); Sahithyaratna ('Gem of Literature'); and the Lankabhimanya ('Pride of Lanka'), the highest honor a civilian can achieve. </span></p> <p class="p_normal"><span class="c_current__and__white_background1">All of which is to say: in Sri Lanka, Sir Arthur </span><span class="c_current__and__white_background__and__ital ic">was </span><span class="c_current__and__white_background1">science fiction. He was an icon of intellect. We grew