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Originally Posted by crutledge
For whatever reason, in some PG files some paragraphs are broken into pieces. Some are one line paragraphs.
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I know most of you are far cleverer then I am so this might help those folks who are my peers in limited ability.
I find the below scenario often enough after converting to epub from X format in calibre. I find Sigil invaluable in correcting these errors. It usually takes me a few find and replaces to get the book with broken paragraphs close to normal.
My most recent case went like this. All paragraphs were surrounded by
<p class="MsoPlainText">paragraph words
</p> and spaces between the paragraphs were created by
<p class="MsoPlainText"></p>
1. I just replaced all
<p class="MsoPlainText"></p> with
<br/><br/>
2. Then I replaced(removed) all
<p class="MsoPlainText"> with nothing and let Sigil clean up the closing elements.
3. Then I replaced all
<br/> with
</p><p> (again Sigil cleaned up the cases where there were <p></p> without words in between.)
4. Then I replaced all
<p> with
<p class="description"> which is the class that held my indent and margins.
After 4 steps all paragraphs were reformed and the book although not up to production quality specs was readable with paragraph indents and the spacing between paragraphs that I prefer.
Any lists that existed prior to this process required manual editing to make them whole again. It is probably best to identify lists upfront and change them so they are not caught up in this process.