Help with mobi -> epub small leading text

[LordP]

Sorry but I don't know enough to do a search for this either here or in Google. I don't know what to call it.

When I convert a mobi to epub I get the following at the beginning of each chapter:

mobi:

Now is the time for all good men

epub:

Now is the time for all good men

The leading words are actually smaller than above, I can't clearly reproduce what I see.

I did try to search for "very small leading words" and variations thereof.

Thanks for any help.

[LordP]

I found this:

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-authors...-a-new-chapter

And I still don't have a name for the style.

[HarryT]

Go into the Calibre editor and increase the font size for whatever style that particular text is using. A very easy thing to change.

[LordP]

Thanks for the reply.

I sort of figured that out.

Changing this: span class="calibre4" to this: span class="calibre3", makes the text bigger (not sure why 3 is bigger than 4...but) for those three words.

And I also managed to change all instances using search and replace.

The problem is that this happens with all mobi files that use this convention of capitalizing the first three words of a chapter.

I'd like to have this not happen at all if at all possible.

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by LordP

Changing this: span class="calibre4" to this: span class="calibre3", makes the text bigger (not sure why 3 is bigger than 4...but) for those three words.

The class names created by calibre, such as calibre3 and calibre4, are arbitrary and do not relate to the effect they have on your book. You need to look up those class names in the associated CSS file in the book to see what they actually do in your case. It will be different for another book or even possibly for another conversion of the same book.

[HarryT]

Exactly. I was not suggesting changing which class applied to that text, but changing the definition of the class that it currently uses in the CSS file. E.g., if that class currently says something like "text-size: 0.75em", change it to "1.5em", or whatever value you prefer.

[LordP]

Thanks, I'll try that.

This will be on a per-book basis, no?

I'm curious, is does this convention have a name? I hard-pressed to come up with search terms.

Thanks again for the info.

[stumped]

if the text snippets are in capitals, then it could be smallcaps ?

https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_...nt-variant.asp

[LordP]

Wow, thanks. I don't think I would have found that website.

Small caps is exactly what Calibre is converting but I think during the conversion to epub it goes a little far and outputs what I can only call "very small fonts".

Anyway, thanks to the kind people at MR I have a fix.

Thanks to all.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by LordP

Thanks, I'll try that.

This will be on a per-book basis, no?

I'm curious, is does this convention have a name? I hard-pressed to come up with search terms.

Thanks again for the info.

First (usage) come, first assigned
Otherwise, it is totally book dependent.
Body typically gets calibre and sometime calibre3. I suspect the Titlepage /boilerplate used different styling, thus the Calibre3
All the rest

[rashkae]

Small caps are typically reduced in size a small degree. When processed through calibre, the font size is changed to next smaller size on the scale. As you noted, that makes small cap paragraph starts looks dispraprotionatly small. You can, however, customize the scale that calibre maps font sizes onto.

When Converting, in the Look and Feel section, look at the Font Size Key. Try changing to this one instead: 10.5, 11.0, 11.5, 12.0, 13.5, 17.0, 20.0, 22.0, 24.0

(Note that when I convert from AZW3 or Epub, I prefer to disable font size rescalling entirely, unless the books needs it.)

[JSWolf]

I too have disabled the font size rescaling when going from ePub to KF8.