Help with text justification

[joeindallas]

OK, I've tried to go through all the tutorials and examples, but i can't seem to get the text in a simple recipe I've cobbled together (Dallas Morning News sports feeds) to be left justified. I've tried to use the USA Today recipe as an example, but no matter what i try - all the text in the articles is center justified. If I examine the output of the command line interface, i see:

'change_justification': 'original',
...
'extra_css': None,

even though I've specified extra CSS. Any ideas? The recipe (with the unworking extra CSS stripped out):

import re
from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe


class AdvancedUserRecipe1295487944(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = u'DMN Team RSS Sports Feeds'
oldest_article = 7
max_articles_per_feed = 100

remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'categoryGroup'})]
remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'div', attrs = {'class': 'archivesGroup'}))

feeds = [(u'Rangers RSS', u'http://rangersblog.dallasnews.com/index.xml'), (u'Mavericks RSS', u'http://mavsblog.dallasnews.com/index.xml'), (u'Cowboys RSS', u'http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/index.xml')]



Thanks for any help!

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by joeindallas

OK, I've tried to go through all the tutorials and examples, but i can't seem to get the text in a simple recipe I've cobbled together (Dallas Morning News sports feeds) to be left justified. I've tried to use the USA Today recipe as an example, but no matter what i try - all the text in the articles is center justified. If I examine the output of the command line interface, i see:

'change_justification': 'original',
...
'extra_css': None,

even though I've specified extra CSS. Any ideas? The recipe (with the unworking extra CSS stripped out):

import re
from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe


class AdvancedUserRecipe1295487944(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = u'DMN Team RSS Sports Feeds'
oldest_article = 7
max_articles_per_feed = 100

remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'categoryGroup'})]
remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'div', attrs = {'class': 'archivesGroup'}))

feeds = [(u'Rangers RSS', u'http://rangersblog.dallasnews.com/index.xml'), (u'Mavericks RSS', u'http://mavsblog.dallasnews.com/index.xml'), (u'Cowboys RSS', u'http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/index.xml')]



Thanks for any help!

If that's your recipe, you haven't specified extra_css.
1) tell it to not use stylesheets:

no_stylesheets = True

2) You may need to strip inline styles

3) Add your extra_css, here's a common one:

    extra_css = '''
                    h1{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:bold;font-size:large;}
                    h2{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:normal;font-size:small;}
                    p{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
                    body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
		'''

[joeindallas]

I deleted my lines for "no_stylesheets" and "extra_css" since they weren't working (and I was a little afraid that I was really just being stupid!)

Your code worked! At least it changed the fonts and sizes, so I was able to add the left justification and it works. The weird thing: I think my attempts all had extra_css = ' blah, blah' in single quotes. It looked to me like your example had two double-quotes on each side, but when I cut-and-pasted into textpad and saved as *.recipe - it saved it as 3 single-qotes on each side. I'm really confused, but it works - thank you very much!

Joe

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by joeindallas

it works - thank you very much!
Joe

I'm happy your problem was solved.