Entering metadata comments as HTML list

[jackie_w]

I was recently trying to enter Comments metadata for a short story anthology as an unordered list. I typed the following simple code directly in the 'HTML source' box

<ul><li>Story one</li><li>Story two</li><li>Story three</li></ul>

When I go back to 'Normal view' everything is visually OK but if I go back to the 'HTML source' box the simple code has transformed itself to this:

<ul><li style="margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">Story one</li>
<li style="margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">Story two</li>
<li style="margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px">Story three</li></ul>

I'm not sure how long this has been happening, because I haven't bought any other anthologies recently. I really don't like these unwanted style="" attributes. It clutters up the epub's OPF file and it doesn't look as neat as it used to when I view the Comments on my Kobo's book details page, either, because each line is double-spaced.

I was wondering whether there's anything at all I can do about it?

[kovidgoyal]

use the GUI controls to insert lists, see the markup they produce and copy that in your source HTML editing.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

use the GUI controls to insert lists, see the markup they produce and copy that in your source HTML editing.

If I type in all te stories, one per line, then select and use the GUI control for unordered list I also get all the style="" stuff:

<ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px">Story one</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px">Story two</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px">Story three</li></ul>

Is there no way of ending up with simple <li> tags without any attributes at all?

[kovidgoyal]

those are inserted by Qt's annoyingly bad rich text editor. But I suppose I can strip them out again https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...241d4e79e2e7b2

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

those are inserted by Qt's annoyingly bad rich text editor. But I suppose I can strip them out again https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...241d4e79e2e7b2

I've tried this out in run from source. It appears to be working well for me. Thank you very much for looking at this Hope you're all well in Mumbai.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

I've tried this out in run from source. It appears to be working well for me. Thank you very much for looking at this Hope you're all well in Mumbai.

Yes we are well. it's a hotspot, and there have been some confirmed cases half a km down the road, but so far no closer.