Doc to Mobi : Paragraph indentation Symbols?

[HelpAGirlOut]

Ok, so I am really new to this. I am used to copy/pasting data into a doc, reformatting it, saving, and then dropping it into calibre and just hitting convert to mobi. That's the extent of my coding knowledge for this program so any assistance given will need to be with that understanding. (As a note I read only in black/white so the colors here aren't errors).

Some friends translate Chinese novels and I compile them into MOBI files for personal use. I have not had any issues before doing this, but now whenever I convert the books (even if there is no formatting adding indentions to paragraphs) I will open it on Kindle and see this: https://imgur.com/a/3wnPnlJ

Could someone tell me why these marks are before each paragraph? Also, the Chinese characters are not able to be read when it could with a previous version of this file.

Using: Calibre 4.3 for Windows 10. The arrows only show on the kindle not the e-reader built in on Calibre.

Thanks!

[kovidgoyal]

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=186697

[HelpAGirlOut]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=186697

Output File: https://www.mediafire.com/file/olmv6..._Xia.mobi/file

Input File:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/0zq60...T%29.docx/file


Converting to Mobi (old) from this doc. No known changes made the settings.

Log File?

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Convert book 1 of 1 (Heaven Official's Blessing)
Conversion options changed from defaults:
mobi_file_type: u'new'
cover: u'C:\\Users\\USERR~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibr e_kqlotw\\j6eziy.jpeg'
output_profile: u'kindle_fire'
verbose: 2
read_metadata_from_opf: u'C:\\Users\\USERR~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibr e_kqlotw\\46hlqo.opf'
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 4.3.0
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': u'original',
'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\\s*((chapter|book|section|part)\\s+)|((prolog|pr ologue|epilogue)(\\s+|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': u'C:\\Users\\USERR~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibr e_kqlotw\\j6eziy.jpeg',
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'docx_inline_subsup': False,
'docx_no_cover': False,
'docx_no_pagebreaks_between_notes': False,
'dont_compress': False,
'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
'embed_all_fonts': False,
'embed_font_family': None,
'enable_heuristics': False,
'expand_css': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'filter_css': u'',
'fix_indents': True,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'format_scene_breaks': True,
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x05A47EF0>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'italicize_common_cases': True,
'keep_ligatures': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 5.0,
'margin_left': 5.0,
'margin_right': 5.0,
'margin_top': 5.0,
'markup_chapter_headings': True,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
'mobi_file_type': u'new',
'mobi_ignore_margins': False,
'mobi_keep_original_images': False,
'mobi_toc_at_start': False,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_inline_navbars': True,
'no_inline_toc': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleFireOutput object at 0x05A522B0>,
'page_breaks_before': u'/',
'personal_doc': u'[PDOC]',
'prefer_author_sort': False,
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'pretty_print': False,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': u'C:\\Users\\USERR~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibr e_kqlotw\\46hlqo.opf',
'remove_fake_margins': True,
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'renumber_headings': True,
'replace_scene_breaks': u'',
'search_replace': '[]',
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'share_not_sync': False,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': None,
'sr1_search': None,
'sr2_replace': None,
'sr2_search': None,
'sr3_replace': None,
'sr3_search': None,
'start_reading_at': None,
'subset_embedded_fonts': False,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'toc_title': None,
'transform_css_rules': '[]',
'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
'unwrap_lines': True,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: DOCX Input running
on C:\Users\USERR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_kqlotw \sovqnp.docx
Converting Word markup to HTML
Converting styles to CSS
Cleaning up redundant markup generated by Word
Generating Table of Contents from headings
Parsing all content...
Parsing docx.css ...
Parsing index.html ...
Initial parse failed, using more forgiving parsers
Parsing index.html as HTML
Reading TOC from NCX...
Merging user specified metadata...
Detecting structure...
Split into 258 parts
Creating KF8 output
Generating in-line ToC
Generating KF8 markup...
Compressing markup...
Creating indices...
MOBI output written to C:\Users\USERR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_kqlotw \hhigad.mobi

[kovidgoyal]

According to that log you have your mobi file type set to new not old. I tried converting the docx to old mobi and looked at it in kindle previewer and din't see any issues.

[HelpAGirlOut]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

According to that log you have your mobi file type set to new not old. I tried converting the docx to old mobi and looked at it in kindle previewer and din't see any issues.

Have you tried the Kindle app? When I open it on there it gives me the image linked in my first post, and looks fine on the kindle viewer for Calibre.

Sorry, I've been trying everything I can to fix the error so I attached the wrong file. My bad. But until now I only used the Mobi old version.

[kovidgoyal]

The kindle previewer is meant to preview kindle books. That is what I tried it in. I dont have the time to send the book to an actual kindle to test, but I would be very surprised if it shwed different results from the kindle previewer.

[kovidgoyal]

Oh and I took a look at your docx file, every paragrpah starts with the invisible unicode symbol U+200F which is what is causing this issue. Use the search and replace in the conversion dialog with a search of \u200F and empty replace to get rid of them.

[HelpAGirlOut]

Thank you! That fixed it!