Calibre Polish (Smarten Punctuation) Ate My NBSP

GrannyGrump · 01-04-2016, 06:28 AM

I created an epub in Sigil, which had many nbsp (non-breaking space) entities.

The header included a Doctype declaration, as follows:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <link href="../Styles/pagestyles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
    <link href="../Styles/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
    <title>Unknown</title>
    </head>
  <body>

I loaded the epub into Calibre (version 2.28), called Polish, and selected to "Smarten Punctuation", no other tasks. [EDIT TO ADD: Using Calibre PORTABLE version 2.28 on Win8, if that matters]

When Polish was finshed, it had converted all the nbsp entities to regular spaces, and deleted the Doctype declaration out of the html header:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <link href="../Styles/pagestyles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
    <link href="../Styles/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
    <title>Unknown</title>
    </head>
  <body>

What did I do wrong? Did I have an error in my header information?

(Incidentally, the Smarten Punctuation is a wonderful too. I've never had nbsp in the epub to be smartened before, so never had this problem. )

Thanks for any advice.

kovidgoyal · 01-04-2016, 07:15 AM

It does not convert nbsp to normal spaces, it converts it to the nbsp unicode character. Open your epub in the calibre editor and position your cursor at one of those locations and look at the bottom right corner to see the name of the character.

GrannyGrump · 01-04-2016, 07:50 AM

Ah, gotcha! So simple, and I really need to study the user guide.

Thanks for the clarification.
And especially, thanks for making this great software!

01-04-2016, 06:28 AM	#1
GrannyGrump Obsessively Dedicated... Posts: 3,221 Karma: 35037583 Join Date: May 2011 Location: PA {back in the usa!} Device: Sony PRS-T2, ADE on PC	Calibre Polish (Smarten Punctuation) Ate My NBSP I created an epub in Sigil, which had many nbsp (non-breaking space) entities. The header included a Doctype declaration, as follows: Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <link href="../Styles/pagestyles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <link href="../Styles/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <title>Unknown</title> </head> <body> I loaded the epub into Calibre (version 2.28), called Polish, and selected to "Smarten Punctuation", no other tasks. [EDIT TO ADD: Using Calibre PORTABLE version 2.28 on Win8, if that matters] When Polish was finshed, it had converted all the nbsp entities to regular spaces, and deleted the Doctype declaration out of the html header: Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <link href="../Styles/pagestyles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <link href="../Styles/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <title>Unknown</title> </head> <body> What did I do wrong? Did I have an error in my header information? (Incidentally, the Smarten Punctuation is a *wonderful* too. I've never had nbsp in the epub to be smartened before, so never had this problem. ) Thanks for any advice. Last edited by GrannyGrump; 01-04-2016 at 06:41 AM.

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01-04-2016, 07:15 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,345 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	It does not convert nbsp to normal spaces, it converts it to the nbsp unicode character. Open your epub in the calibre editor and position your cursor at one of those locations and look at the bottom right corner to see the name of the character.

01-04-2016, 07:50 AM	#3
GrannyGrump Obsessively Dedicated... Posts: 3,221 Karma: 35037583 Join Date: May 2011 Location: PA {back in the usa!} Device: Sony PRS-T2, ADE on PC	Ah, gotcha! So simple, and I really need to study the user guide. Thanks for the clarification. And especially, thanks for making this great software!

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