A suggestion for the custom editable textfield in the metadata

moredrowsy · 10-06-2019, 01:22 AM

Hey guys and kovid, great job on version 4.

I have a slight inconvenience. I use a custom editable textfield in the metadata for my "reviews" where I sync this to goodreads. However, with version 4, my custom html tags are formatted with new lines now.

For example, my original text:

Code:

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p>

turns to:

Code:

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p>

This seems trivial, however, goodreads parses newlines as an extra break so it seems like every paragraph now has three line breaks. I didn't have this problem before where calibre3 didn't format the tags with new lines.

Just wondering you can revert the behavior or if this is the principle for calibre4.

Thanks.

kovidgoyal · 10-06-2019, 01:55 AM

Sadly, this is something the rich text editor widget in Qt does, so it's not in my control. And I can see no way to workaround it either, sorry.

10-06-2019, 01:22 AM	#1
moredrowsy Connoisseur Posts: 69 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2016 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 3	A suggestion for the custom editable textfield in the metadata Hey guys and kovid, great job on version 4. I have a slight inconvenience. I use a custom editable textfield in the metadata for my "reviews" where I sync this to goodreads. However, with version 4, my custom html tags are formatted with new lines now. For example, my original text: Code: <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p> turns to: Code: <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p> This seems trivial, however, goodreads parses newlines as an extra break so it seems like every paragraph now has three line breaks. I didn't have this problem before where calibre3 didn't format the tags with new lines. Just wondering you can revert the behavior or if this is the principle for calibre4. Thanks.

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10-06-2019, 01:55 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,347 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Sadly, this is something the rich text editor widget in Qt does, so it's not in my control. And I can see no way to workaround it either, sorry.

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