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DNSB · 12-05-2023, 07:57 PM

I ran into a rather odd glitch. One author that I do so work with changed the program they used to generate ePubs. One result is the misuse of tags.

This is what I would expect to see:

Code:

<i>This is an italic sentence</i>.

This is what the misbegotten program generates:

Code:

<i>This</i><i> </i><i>is</i><i> </i><i>an</i><i> </i><i>italic</i><i> </i><i>sentence</i>.

And CustomCleanerPlus removes the strings so what pops out is:

Code:

<i>This</i><i>is</i><i>an</i><i>italic</i><i>sentence</i>.

Thisisanitalicsentence.

I worked around it by converting the to a simple space (ditto for the but they were a lot rarer before doing much else.

12-05-2023, 07:57 PM	#161
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 47,438 Karma: 171313058 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	I ran into a rather odd glitch. One author that I do so work with changed the program they used to generate ePubs. One result is the misuse of <i> tags. This is what I would expect to see: Code: <i>This is an italic sentence</i>. This is what the misbegotten program generates: Code: <i>This</i><i> </i><i>is</i><i> </i><i>an</i><i> </i><i>italic</i><i> </i><i>sentence</i>. And CustomCleanerPlus removes the <i> </i> strings so what pops out is: Code: <i>This</i><i>is</i><i>an</i><i>italic</i><i>sentence</i>. Thisisanitalicsentence. I worked around it by converting the <i> </i> to a simple space (ditto for the <b> </b> but they were a lot rarer before doing much else. Last edited by DNSB; 12-05-2023 at 08:00 PM.