Enhancement request for "remove space between paragraphs"

[HarryT]

Hi Kovid,

The "remove space between paragraphs" feature of Calibre is probably the feature that I use most often when converting books. It works extremely well almost all the time, but there would be one "tweak" that would make it perfect for me: would it be feasible to make it a little smarter, such that it didn't indent a paragraph that immediately followed on from a chapter heading, or other title?

I'd be grateful if you could give this request some consideration for future development.

Thanks!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Hi Kovid,

The "remove space between paragraphs" feature of Calibre is probably the feature that I use most often when converting books. It works extremely well almost all the time, but there would be one "tweak" that would make it perfect for me: would it be feasible to make it a little smarter, such that it didn't indent a paragraph that immediately followed on from a chapter heading, or other title?

I'd be grateful if you could give this request some consideration for future development.

Thanks!

Harry
Have you tried using an additional CSS in the conversion?
Something like:

h3+p,h1+p,h2+p {text-indent: 0; }

[HarryT]

No, I haven't. I'll give that a go - thanks for the suggestion.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by HarryT

No, I haven't. I'll give that a go - thanks for the suggestion.

Note: I assumed H#+P
but some books use DIV instead of P

or

even more difficult
H# followed by a DIV (chapter body) wrapper for the P or DIV paragraphs
In those cases

One of the reasons I just use Sigil to touch up a basic conversion.
Look, then do what is needed for that book

[kovidgoyal]

I'm not sure how robust that can be made, without major efforts. As theducks points out, "preceded by" is not well defined in html. For example, all of the following snippets will render as paragraphs immediately preceded by a title:

<h1>title</h1>
<p>...

<h1>title</h1>
<div><div><p>

<h1>title</h1>
<table><td><p>...

<h1>t</h1>
<div><img src="blank.png"><p>

<h1>title</h1>
<p style="display:none or visibility:hidden"><p>...

So while it could be made to work for the common case of heading tag followed by simple <p> of <div>, it wont be particularly robust. And then there is the problem that it will require a separate option to control, since there will be people that like the current behavior.