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Old 03-17-2017, 12:39 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by sbin View Post
I'm always performing the same fixes to my epubs before reading them, and I was wondering if there's a way to automatize all the work (or at least part of it).

The operations I normally do manually within calibre's editor are:
— "beautify" all the files (this is needed mainly for the searches&replaces to work properly)
— fix the ellipsis in all text files
— remove line-height and text-alignment: justify in all the css
— set all non-zero values for text-indent to 1em
— some other stuff very similar to the previous points


I already have a bunch of saved searches, but given that all these operations don't require discretion, is there a plugin or a smarter way to manage all this?

Thanks
I have no idea how to answer your question, but I just wanted to say, "OMG, there's someone out there besides me who fixes ellipses!" (I also remove line-heights and set non-zero text-indents to 1em unless it's a hanging indent with a negative value), but it was your comment on ellipses that got me. Poorly formatted and inconsistent ellipses drive me crazy, and now I feel better because I'm not the only person in the world who fixes them.
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