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[Princess kindle]

Hello,
I have a doubt there are some books in azw3 or mobi that are better armed than others, they have good line spacing and correct alignment and the words are separated and they are good size.
I want to know if in some place of caliber I can see those adjustments to apply them to the other books.
I try the option to convert, but it does not show me the settings that book has to copy them from there and replicate them in others
Thank you

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Princess kindle

Hello,
I have a doubt there are some books in azw3 or mobi that are better armed than others, they have good line spacing and correct alignment and the words are separated and they are good size.
I want to know if in some place of caliber I can see those adjustments to apply them to the other books.
I try the option to convert, but it does not show me the settings that book has to copy them from there and replicate them in others
Thank you

The reason you will not find a simple solution is that which make CSS great.
Cascading Style Sheet.
Calibre builds onto or modifies the original publishers (as delivered to you) CSS.
Believe me, they do everything. Some of it is strange. Some of it is just messy/sloppy.
Reverse engineering (look at the HTML and CSS), and 'filing to fit' with the Editor (Calibre or Sigil). Personally, I gave up trying Convert to try and correct code (books visual aspects) and just use the editor with a bunch of saved code snippets handy, and selectively replace what was there.
There are many Sigil Editor plugins to help: The Toolbag for modifying tags, There is a PI to shift from inline Styles to CSS .
Take some time to read the various Plugin threads (There is an Index of PI in both forums) descriptions to see which that you might find useful

[Princess kindle]

hello, thanks for answering so soon.
The problem is that I do not code or ccs I dont understand nothing of this. I will start by learning ccs and programming.
Bye

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Princess kindle

hello, thanks for answering so soon.
The problem is that I do not code or ccs I dont understand nothing of this. I will start by learning ccs and programming.
Bye

It is really not hard (way simpler than doing a WEB page).
IMHO start by understanding the 'Box model' in CSS. W3C has many great documents
That is how a block like a Paragraph behaves. You just put words or images inside the innermost part of a box. In many cases, a standard paragraph does not use (or they are invisible) the outer layers.

I built a 'sampler' of the things I tried to see what happened when I played with X.
Also, just look at the CSS for you favorite look
The Property Inspector in the Preview pane of the Editor allows you to see what attributes cascade for the currently selected block, and you can make a temporary (affects the current view only) to see what happens.

[retiredbiker]

Originally Posted by Princess kindle

hello, thanks for answering so soon.
The problem is that I do not code or ccs I dont understand nothing of this. I will start by learning ccs and programming.
Bye

Theducks is on the right track (as usual). Here are some even more basic suggestions.

E-book html and CSS is a small, very tiny, subset of the whole big subject. If all you want to do is fix books, don't bother trying to learn web-page coding: you will blow your brains out. That is a whole career.

My starting advice: find a simple book you like. Open it in the editor. Look at a paragraph that works for you...the paragraph will be something like: <p class="something">..text..</p> in the code pane. Open the Live CSS pane, and find the entry related to the <p class="something"> code -- it will probably start with a line ".something {". You will see lines for font-size, margins, indents, and so on, though not all of them all the time.

Use Kovid's excellent user manual to guide you around the editor--the different menus and panes.

Try changing some of the factors. For example, if you see "text-align: justify;", try changing the "justify" to "left" or "right" and see what happens to the text in the preview pane. Or maybe "text-indent: 24px", change it to "text-indent: 240px;" and watch it change. Just play with this for an hour or two, and you should get a feel for how it works. Just don't hit the save button if you mess it up---just close without saving.

It's not all that simple, but that's a good way to start. When you have a feel for it, look at a book you don't like, and see if you can adjust to coding to match the book you do like. Copy and paste a lot until you learn the syntax. THEN go to W3S or some other html learning site and start to look up what you have been playing with.

Just a way to get started; it got me going years ago.

[Princess kindle]

Originally Posted by retiredbiker

Theducks is on the right track (as usual). Here are some even more basic suggestions.

E-book html and CSS is a small, very tiny, subset of the whole big subject. If all you want to do is fix books, don't bother trying to learn web-page coding: you will blow your brains out. That is a whole career.

My starting advice: find a simple book you like. Open it in the editor. Look at a paragraph that works for you...the paragraph will be something like: <p class="something">..text..</p> in the code pane. Open the Live CSS pane, and find the entry related to the <p class="something"> code -- it will probably start with a line ".something {". You will see lines for font-size, margins, indents, and so on, though not all of them all the time.

Use Kovid's excellent user manual to guide you around the editor--the different menus and panes.

Try changing some of the factors. For example, if you see "text-align: justify;", try changing the "justify" to "left" or "right" and see what happens to the text in the preview pane. Or maybe "text-indent: 24px", change it to "text-indent: 240px;" and watch it change. Just play with this for an hour or two, and you should get a feel for how it works. Just don't hit the save button if you mess it up---just close without saving.

It's not all that simple, but that's a good way to start. When you have a feel for it, look at a book you don't like, and see if you can adjust to coding to match the book you do like. Copy and paste a lot until you learn the syntax. THEN go to W3S or some other html learning site and start to look up what you have been playing with.

Just a way to get started; it got me going years ago.

That's perfect for me, I'll start there, doing that you say, thank you

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[Princess kindle]

Thanks

[Princess kindle]

hello I have the following question apply the hyphenate option, and it looks perfect in the Caliber reader, but when I read it in the kindle it is not seen, it just looks unjustified.
what dou you recommend?
Thank you