Sigil Formating? Text won't wrap.

[StephanMatson]

Hello,
I recently compiled my ebook in Sigil, but before I publish the work I ran it through Amazons Kindle Preview Emulator to see what the final product would look like. The problem I'm facing is that the text doesnt wrap around to the next line correctly. Where the text ends on the right of the Sigil window, in the emulator it single spaces to the next line and ruins the layout.

For instance I could have

"The boy from Oklahoma bought a plane and decided to drive race cars instead.

But then he decided to go to the mall and buy an icecream."



Which turns into

"The boy from Oklahoma bought a plane and decided to drive
race cars instead.

Bit then he decided to go to the mall and buy an icecream"



Any suggestions?


Best
Stephan

[DiapDealer]

Not really sure what you're asking. I see nothing wrong with the second--apparently undesired--formatting. Text wraps in an epub (unless it's a fixed layout epub, which Sigil is currently incapable of producing), and it wraps in different places on different screen-sizes (and font-sizes, and margin-settings).

[roger64]

Hi

I would try a "cleaning" regex for all files, suppressing all the \n:

S: \n
R:

And after, use the Calibre Editor menu "Beautify all files" to put back everything where it should. I am not sure about the exact title of this menu, in French it's "Embellir tous les fichiers"

[DiapDealer]

Calibre's Beautify Files doesn't really do anything different than Sigil's "Mend and Prettify" will. Use calibre's if you like, but there's no real compelling reason to go from Sigil to calibre (and possibly back) just to "pretty up" code. Neither does anything that should alter how things are rendered anyway.

[roger64]

OK Sorry for that. So read: use Sigil "Mend and prettify"...

[Notjohn]

Originally Posted by StephanMatson

Hello,

For instance I could have

"The boy from Oklahoma bought a plane and decided to drive race cars instead.

But then he decided to go to the mall and buy an icecream."



Which turns into

"The boy from Oklahoma bought a plane and decided to drive
race cars instead.

Bit then he decided to go to the mall and buy an icecream"

Every line in an e-book will wrap if it's too long to fit the available screen width. On my iPhone 4, for example, your first paragraph might be three lines and the second paragraph two lines.

You oughtn't, however, have a blank space between the two paragraphs.

And if you don't want the text to form two separate paragraphs, you shouldn't start a new paragraph after the first full stop.

But I too may be having difficulty in understanding just what you are trying to accomplish here.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by StephanMatson

Hello,
I recently compiled my ebook in Sigil, but before I publish the work I ran it through Amazons Kindle Preview Emulator to see what the final product would look like. The problem I'm facing is that the text doesnt wrap around to the next line correctly. Where the text ends on the right of the Sigil window, in the emulator it single spaces to the next line and ruins the layout.

For instance I could have

<SNIP>



Which turns into

"The boy from Oklahoma bought a plane and decided to drive
race cars instead.

Bit then he decided to go to the mall and buy an icecream"


Any suggestions?


Best
Stephan

Stephan:

As notjohn, and Diap, and everybody else (mostly) said, there's nothing wrong with the result you are getting.

Unless you are making a FIXED-LAYOUT eBook--which you are most certainly not making in Sigil--then, you do not have precise control over line- and word-wrapping and hyphenation.

If I read the text right--if indeed it's from your book--perhaps you are endeavoring to create a child's book? Perhaps something like an Easy Reader, with images and text on the same "page," for lack of a better term?

Can you let us know what you are trying to do? And, if perhaps you have a PDF of the page that you laid out, or some other immutable thing, could you screenshoot that, and show us what you are trying to achieve?

I could be wrong--of course!--but my tummy is telling me that perhaps you are trying to make a Fixed-layout book. If that is so, I'm sorry to say, you are on the wrong path, at the moment.

Let us know.

Hitch