[nerys]

Now the Insert blank line SHOULD fix my "normal" novels with no quirky spacing or at least have minimal detrimental effects though I must say its not marked clearly.

Insert Blank Line? what does that mean? it should say insert blank line between each paragraph. but logically if you do not check REMOVE blank line it should "leave" blank lines that are already in place alone.

so essentially checking insert blank line is telling the program. yeah you know those lines you just removed? put them back :-) hehe

seriously though I can see that being useful if your document does NOT HAVE blank lines between paragraphs

so why does calibre remove them if they are present?

alas this does not fix files where SPACES are utilized for formatting as calibre seems to remove them all and I am unable to find an option to "tell" it to stop doing that.

and you can not use add blank line to fix "fixed width" documents since it won't just add lines between paragraphs it will not add lines between each line as well (which is exactly what it did to this document.

if you type a line like this but the screen is half this wide it will "wrap"

but

if you type
a line like
this but the
screen is half
this wide

Nothing wraps unless the screen is smaller than your longest line.

alas the add blank line takes that and correct adds lines between paragraphs but ALSO adds them like this

if you type

a line like

this but the

screen is half

this wide

See what I mean?

the solution is to tell it to STOP altering it :-) ie leaving the line breaks alone leave the spaces and tabs alone JUST convert it.

thats what I am trying to do.