Unwanted Italics

linzerkipferl · 02-05-2012, 12:55 PM

Hello everybody!

I am very new to Calibre and ebooks in general, so anybody who answers, if you could please use layman's language, it would be very much appreciated!

I wanted to converse a text to .mobi-format for my new Kindle-Reader. I prepared the text using OpenOffice.org 3.3. (Writer)
The .odt-file was all right, with Chapters marked as "Heading 2" and some selected passages in Italics, just the way I wanted it.
But in the .mobi-format suddenly complete chapters turned out in Italics.
I tried several times, then I tried to converse the text from .html-format, but again - unwanted Italics.

What did I do wrong?

Thanks for your help!

frostschutz · 02-05-2012, 01:34 PM

Have you heuristics enabled, it has a function that tries to turn some character patterns into italics, which is not what you want unless you convert a document actually using those patterns. So disable italicize option in heuristics.

linzerkipferl · 02-05-2012, 01:48 PM

Heuristics were not enabled.

wygit · 02-17-2012, 08:52 PM

I'm actually having the same problem... converting from TXT, the author uses
return star space star space star return
to indicate a change in viewpoint, but calibre is interpreting it as an italic start and staying italic until the next viewpoint change.

It does this whether italics are checked in heuristic processing or not.

Any ideas on how to fix that?

kovidgoyal · 02-17-2012, 11:00 PM

In the txt input conversion settings set the format type to plain.

wygit · 02-18-2012, 01:23 PM

Thank you, Kovid. That did it. I knew I could count on you.

02-05-2012, 12:55 PM	#1
linzerkipferl Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Kindle	Unwanted Italics Hello everybody! I am very new to Calibre and ebooks in general, so anybody who answers, if you could please use layman's language, it would be very much appreciated! I wanted to converse a text to .mobi-format for my new Kindle-Reader. I prepared the text using OpenOffice.org 3.3. (Writer) The .odt-file was all right, with Chapters marked as "Heading 2" and some selected passages in Italics, just the way I wanted it. But in the .mobi-format suddenly complete chapters turned out in Italics. I tried several times, then I tried to converse the text from .html-format, but again - unwanted Italics. What did I do wrong? Thanks for your help!

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02-05-2012, 01:34 PM	#2
frostschutz Linux User Posts: 2,282 Karma: 6123806 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Heidelberg, Germany Device: none	Have you heuristics enabled, it has a function that tries to turn some character patterns into italics, which is not what you want unless you convert a document actually using those patterns. So disable italicize option in heuristics.

02-05-2012, 01:48 PM	#3
linzerkipferl Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Kindle	Heuristics were not enabled.

02-17-2012, 08:52 PM	#4
wygit Enthusiast Posts: 33 Karma: 112 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Sony PRS-505	I'm actually having the same problem... converting from TXT, the author uses return star space star space star return to indicate a change in viewpoint, but calibre is interpreting it as an italic start and staying italic until the next viewpoint change. It does this whether italics are checked in heuristic processing or not. Any ideas on how to fix that?

02-17-2012, 11:00 PM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	In the txt input conversion settings set the format type to plain.

02-18-2012, 01:23 PM	#6
wygit Enthusiast Posts: 33 Karma: 112 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Sony PRS-505	Thank you, Kovid. That did it. I knew I could count on you.