[nerys]

Ok I finally found a good compromise routine.

I want a reader oriented format. ie small text well formated and spaced.

but I also love the fast load and "covers" of the LRF format.

SO I use some pdf to txt (if its a pdf) to make a txt file

I then use notepadd++ to diddle with the formatting to get it "looking" proper for use on the reader.

I then import this into calibre let it find the metadata (replacing the cover if its too low res etc.. I just search amazon and usually find something good enough to make 700pixels tall)

and export.

the problem is Calibre is MESSING with the formatting of my text.

how do I stop it from doing this?

Some example.



----I will have text set up the way you see me typing it now. If the text is large enough I am just going to type random stuff until its large enough to make my formatting choices clear and make it obvious what I am trying to make my results look like

----Then I want to make sure you understand how I prefer my formatting to look like on the reader etc. I like spaces between my paragraphs while this increase the page count it makes it easier on the eyes to follow the content at least for me it does.

----This way just seems to be easier.



When I run this through Claibre I get this



----I will have text set up the way you see me typing it now. If the text is large enough I am just going to type random stuff until its large enough to make my formatting choices clear and make it obvious what I am trying to make my results look like
----Then I want to make sure you understand how I prefer my formatting to look like on the reader etc. I like spaces between my paragraphs while this increase the page count it makes it easier on the eyes to follow the content at least for me it does.
----This way just seems to be easier.



which I do not want. How do I stop it from doing that? some things are even more complex than this.

For example James Cameron made the Script for Avatar available publicly for anyone to download unencrypted.

Conversion to text works quite nicely.

a piece looks like this

---------------------------- AVATAR
-------------------------- Written by
------------------------James Cameron




ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. COPYRIGHT ©2007 TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM
CORPORATION. NO PORTION OF THIS SCRIPT MAY BE PERFORMED, PUBLISHED,
REPRODUCED, SOLD, OR DISTRIBUTED BY ANY MEANS, OR QUOTED OR PUBLISHED IN
ANY MEDIUM, INCLUDING ANY WEB SITE, WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION.

--THE SOUND OF DRUMS, from a great distance, growing louder.

--FADE IN:

--WE ARE FLYING through mist, a dimly glimpsed forest below.

-------------------- VOICE (V.O.)
---------- When I was lying there in the VA
---------- hospital, with a big hole blown through
---------- the middle of my life, I started having
---------- these dreams of flying.

--We are very low over the forest now, gliding fast, the drums
BUILDING to a PEAK --

-------------------- VOICE (V.O.)
---------- Sooner or later though, you always have
---------- to wake up...
------------------------------------------------------ CUT TO:

--EXT. CITY - NIGHT

--A SCREECH OF BRAKES as a vehicle WIPES FRAME, revealing --

--JAKE SULLY, a scarred and scruffy combat vet, sitting in a
beat up carbon-fiber wheelchair. At 22, his eyes are
hardened by the wisdom and wariness of one who has endured
pain beyond his years.

This looks QUITE nice on the reader.

alas Calibre mucks it all up and makes it look like this.



AVATAR Written by James CameronALL RIGHTS RESERVED. COPYRIGHT �2007 TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION. NO PORTION OF THIS SCRIPT MAY BE PERFORMED, PUBLISHED, REPRODUCED, SOLD, OR DISTRIBUTED BY ANY MEANS, OR QUOTED OR PUBLISHED IN ANY MEDIUM, INCLUDING ANY WEB SITE, WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION.
--THE SOUND OF DRUMS, from a great distance, growing louder.
--FADE IN:
--WE ARE FLYING through mist, a dimly glimpsed forest below.
--VOICE (V.O.) When I was lying there in the VA hospital, with a big hole blown through the middle of my life, I started having these dreams of flying.
--We are very low over the forest now, gliding fast, the drums BUILDING to a PEAK --
--VOICE (V.O.) Sooner or later though, you always have to wake up... CUT TO:
--EXT. CITY - NIGHT
--A SCREECH OF BRAKES as a vehicle WIPES FRAME, revealing --
--JAKE SULLY, a scarred and scruffy combat vet, sitting in a beat up carbon-fiber wheelchair. At 22, his eyes are hardened by the wisdom and wariness of one who has endured pain beyond his years.


ie it whacks all the formatting. It unreadable like that.

how do I make it so I can convert to lrf WITHOUT altering the content of the text file in such a way?

IE use it "just" as I give it and just put it in the lrf wrapper with the cover image and metadata?


sorry for the dashes but I can not insert tabs and this forum software REMOVES all extraneous spaces. So I replaced the SPACES with DASHES


I tried going to the Structure Detection screen and deleting EVERYTHING figuring those were the commands it was using to "redo" the content formatting

No joy. it still mucks it all up no apparent change.

there IS a check box for remove space between paragraphs which I left BLANK but its still removing the spaces.

suggestions?