Thread: Spaces inserted between paragraphs in Synopsis in Kobo Reader
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Old 09-17-2021, 02:48 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by codychan View Post
Yes, I looked it up before this post, and I didn't pay attention to that thread since I don't know how to do the following instruction.


I don't understand the meaning FFF and plugboard, and then he said "I changed it to KOBOTOUCHEXTENDED", have no idea what it means.
"FFF"is "FanFicFare" which is a plugin to download fanfiction and build epubs from them. That part you can safely ignore.

The plugboard is set in the "Metadata plugbpoard" page of the calibre preferences. Different plugboards can be used for different devices or actions such save-to-disk. The way calibre parses the comments when used in a plugboard means that extra whitespace is removed. That include new-lines between tags.
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And basically according to your reply, this is the problem Kobo device, Kobo doesn't handle it properly like Calibre Comments section.
To be fair, it means that Kobo handles it differently than calibre. And while it is inconsistent with other places that HTML tags are used (ignoring whitespace between tags), strictly, the rules are up to them as to what to do. I disagree with how they do it and have reported it as a problem. I recommend that you do the same.
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I found a plugin called `Clean Comments`, it is not perfect, but it is usable, at least I tried it for a book's Comments section, the space between in a list is gone, the blank lines between paragraphs become only one blank line.
"Clean Comment" will remove all tags from the comments. Which makes me wonder what you were doing before. You said "already converted into plain text". But I suspect that means you removed any styles using the metadata editor. Or, you were removing them in the "HTML source" view. If the latter, then some tags will be put back when the changes are saved. "Clean Comment" will remove them, but, they may get added again if you edit the metadata of the book again.
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