Formatting Issues with Chinese E-book

nstock · 10-31-2016, 06:25 PM

I have been using OpenOffice Writer along with calibre 2.7.1 to create an mobi e-book of a Chinese book. I have completed the formatting, etc. and the book looks pretty good. However, the book has some end notes and I want to create a Table of Contents in addition to calibre's automatic table of contents. Most of the links work like I would expect them to, but for some reason when I use two of the six total links in either the Table of Contents or the footnotes the link takes me to the correct place in the book, but inserts formatting html before the Chinese text. When I turn the page and then go back, the page displays correctly without the additional html.

Before I tried this book I have done e-books in English, but never have had this formatting problem before. Has anybody else had a problem similar to mine? I would like to believe that some unseen formatting data is causing my problems, but I keep on trying to delete and add clean Chinese characters by running them through notepad, but these problems seem to be jumping around the odt document. Thank you!

kovidgoyal · 11-01-2016, 01:14 AM

This is a limitation of the mobi renderer on Kindles. You can workaround it by inserting page breaks before the problematic content.

kovidgoyal · 11-01-2016, 01:15 AM

Also convert to azw3 instead of MOBI

10-31-2016, 06:25 PM	#1
nstock Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2016 Device: Kindle D00901	Formatting Issues with Chinese E-book I have been using OpenOffice Writer along with calibre 2.7.1 to create an mobi e-book of a Chinese book. I have completed the formatting, etc. and the book looks pretty good. However, the book has some end notes and I want to create a Table of Contents in addition to calibre's automatic table of contents. Most of the links work like I would expect them to, but for some reason when I use two of the six total links in either the Table of Contents or the footnotes the link takes me to the correct place in the book, but inserts formatting html before the Chinese text. When I turn the page and then go back, the page displays correctly without the additional html. Before I tried this book I have done e-books in English, but never have had this formatting problem before. Has anybody else had a problem similar to mine? I would like to believe that some unseen formatting data is causing my problems, but I keep on trying to delete and add clean Chinese characters by running them through notepad, but these problems seem to be jumping around the odt document. Thank you!

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11-01-2016, 01:14 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,345 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	This is a limitation of the mobi renderer on Kindles. You can workaround it by inserting page breaks before the problematic content.

11-01-2016, 01:15 AM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,345 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Also convert to azw3 instead of MOBI

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