spacing between paragraphs added after book conversion

franklekens · 07-06-2020, 01:58 PM

I have a book I bought on Amazon, imported into Calibre, and then converted to epub to read on my Kobo reader.
In the conversion dialogue, the "remove spacing between paragraphs" is checked. Not even necessary in this case, since the book didn't originally contain any.

Yet the resulting epub does have spacing between paragraphs. On my Kobo reader and in Calibre's reader it looks like in the first picture.
However, if I look at the epub, the text is displayed fine, withouth space between the paragraphs, as in the second screenshot.

Is there something in the CSS that could cause this that I should tweak manually? (I've added the contents of the css a a text file, just in case.)

MTIA.

JSWolf · 07-06-2020, 02:27 PM

Use the KindleUnpack plugin to shift from KF8 to ePub. Then in the Calibre editor, run epubcheck (if you don't have the plugin, get it) and then fix any errors that show. This will give you as close a conversion as possible.

hobnail · 07-06-2020, 03:12 PM

The paragraphs are tagged with the classes s12 and c5. So look for those in the CSS and typically the spacing is caused by setting margin-top and/or margin-bottom to something not 0.

franklekens · 07-06-2020, 04:54 PM

Thanks. But it's really weird. All it says for s12 is:

.s12{
-webkit-hyphens: none;

font-size: 87.5000%;
font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal;
hyphens: none;
letter-spacing: 0.0000em;
margin-bottom: 0.0000%;
margin-top: 0.0000%;
padding-left: 0.0000%;
padding-right: 0.0000%;
text-align: left;
text-decoration: none;
text-indent: 3.0285%;
text-transform: none;
}

Seems like a zero margin is specified already.

And for c5 -- it says nothing! Just this:

.c5{

}

Also, incidentally, why the discrepancy in the preview of the epub editor and the epub reader within Calibre?

jackie_w · 07-06-2020, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by franklekens

Is there something in the CSS that could cause this that I should tweak manually? (I've added the contents of the css a a text file, just in case.)

It's hard to be sure without access to the whole book but if it was mine I'd be suspicious of the <div> tag immediately after the <body> tag which has an inline style attribute.

It reads <div class="body" style="white-space: pre-wrap; line-break: strict;">. I can't think of any circumstances where I'd want to keep something like this.

franklekens · 07-07-2020, 04:12 AM

Thank you both.
I tried both remedies: removing the div tags seemed to help, and reimporting it from the Kindle and using the kindle unpack plugin also gave me a file without spacing between paragraphs.

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07-06-2020, 02:27 PM	#2
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 79,763 Karma: 145864619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Use the KindleUnpack plugin to shift from KF8 to ePub. Then in the Calibre editor, run epubcheck (if you don't have the plugin, get it) and then fix any errors that show. This will give you as close a conversion as possible.

07-06-2020, 03:12 PM	#3
hobnail Running with scissors Posts: 1,587 Karma: 14328510 Join Date: Nov 2019 Device: none	The paragraphs are tagged with the classes s12 and c5. So look for those in the CSS and typically the spacing is caused by setting margin-top and/or margin-bottom to something not 0.

07-06-2020, 04:54 PM	#4
franklekens Addict Posts: 398 Karma: 3421956 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: various Kobo's, Onyx Note2, Pocketbook 360, Kindle Keyboard	Thanks. But it's really weird. All it says for s12 is: .s12{ -webkit-hyphens: none; font-size: 87.5000%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; letter-spacing: 0.0000em; margin-bottom: 0.0000%; margin-top: 0.0000%; padding-left: 0.0000%; padding-right: 0.0000%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 3.0285%; text-transform: none; } Seems like a zero margin is specified already. And for c5 -- it says nothing! Just this: .c5{ } Also, incidentally, why the discrepancy in the preview of the epub editor and the epub reader within Calibre?

07-07-2020, 04:12 AM	#6
franklekens Addict Posts: 398 Karma: 3421956 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: various Kobo's, Onyx Note2, Pocketbook 360, Kindle Keyboard	Thank you both. I tried both remedies: removing the div tags seemed to help, and reimporting it from the Kindle and using the kindle unpack plugin also gave me a file without spacing between paragraphs.

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