Indents forced on a ePub to Mobi conversion

[karenbryant]

Hi,
Please help! I have spent hours trawling through threads trying to solve a simple issue. I make my ePub files using Word, via Atlantis. For the first paragraph of each chapter I set the paragraphing of the first line to 0 (following normal conventions), while the rest of the book is 0.5. When I convert the ePub to Mobi using Calibre, however, Calibre forces all paragraphs to indent. But I need those first lines at 0. How can I stop this? I don't wish to enter html code etc. I simply want to tell Calibe to leave all the paragraph first line indents the way they are. Apart from this annoying issue I am very happy with the resulting mobi file and do not wish to create a mobi file in any other way due to various reasons.
Thanks all!
Karen

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by karenbryant

I don't wish to enter html code etc. I simply want to tell Calibe to leave all the paragraph first line indents the way they are.

Calibre only indents paragraphs if you tell it to during conversion. You have two options:

1. Uncheck the box next to Remove spacing between paragraphs (see attached circled in red). Checking this feature also enables the Indent size box.
2. If you want to remove the spacing between paragraphs then, as described in the tooltip, (see attached circled in blue) insert a negative value in the Indent size field, -.1 should do.

I hope this helps.

[karenbryant]

Hi,

Thanks for replying. I had already tried playing with those Look and Feel options and setting the indent to 'No change' etc. But Calibre still enforces an indent on everything - every time I convert my ePub to mobi . Even the tocs in the eBook have indents on each line once Calibre is finished with it. I simply want Calibre to leave the first line indents applied in the ePub how they are but it always forces an indent on everything. Please help!

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by karenbryant

I simply want Calibre to leave the first line indents applied in the ePub how they are but it always forces an indent on everything. Please help!

Obviously something is not right because this is not normal calibre behavior.

Post the job details from one of your conversions that shows this behavior. After running the conversion click on jobs in the bottom right of calibre. Select the Job, then show details. Do ctrl-a to select everything in the job details window and copy it into a post here and we can take a look.

Since the details is quite long wrap the Job details in your post with the spoiler tag, eye with the red X over it in the advanced editing window.

It would be great if you could attach a non-copyright example epub that shows this behavior too.

[AnemicOak]

Maybe try converting with KindleGen/Kindle Previewer instead and see what the results are?