unwanted pagebreak

travger · 05-03-2014, 02:39 PM

My epub looks nice in both Sigil and Calibre Viewer, links work, chapter headings are between 2 images. But when I convert to mobi, then after first image will be pagebreak. I just can't understand why, as far as I see there's nothing in the code to put pagebreak there. All the pagebreaks I have are in the end of every chapter.

pagebreak in prologue:

Code:

    <div class="mbppagebreak" id="calibre_pb_2"></div>

html:

Code:

<body class="calibre">

  <div class="calibre1" id="filepos2561">

  <p class="himg1"><img alt="" class="calibre20" src="../Images/00012.jpg" /></p>

  <h2 class="head"><a class="calibre14" href="../Text/toc.html#filepos650277"><span class="calibre5">C</span><span class="calibre6">HAPTER 1</span></a></h2>

  <p class="himg2"><img alt="" class="calibre20" src="../Images/00001.jpg" /></p>

  </div>

and css:

Code:

h2 {
    display: block;
    font-size: 1em;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: 0;
    margin-right: 0;
    margin-top: 0;
    text-align: center;
    text-indent: 0
    }
.calibre {
    display: block;
    line-height: 1.2;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: 5pt;
    margin-right: 5pt;
    margin-top: 0;
    padding-left: 0;
    padding-right: 0;
    text-align: justify
    }
.calibre1 {
    display: block
    }
.himg1 {
    display: block;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: 0;
    margin-right: 0;
    margin-top: 2em;
    text-align: center;
    text-indent: 0
    }
.himg2 {
    display: block;
    margin-bottom: 1.4em;
    margin-left: 0;
    margin-right: 0;
    margin-top: 0;
    text-align: center;
    text-indent: 0
    }
.head {
    display: block;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: 0;
    margin-right: 0;
    margin-top: 0;
    font-style: italic;
    font-weight: bold;
    text-align: center;
    text-indent: 0
    }
.calibre20 {
    height: 42px;
    vertical-align: baseline;
    width: 131px;
    page-break after: never;
    }
.calibre14 {
    color: blue;
    cursor: pointer;
    text-decoration: underline
    }
.calibre5 {
    font-size: 1.25em;
    line-height: 1
    }
.calibre6 {
    font-size: 1.125em;
    line-height: 1.2
    }
.mbppagebreak {
    display: block;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: 0;
    margin-right: 0;
    margin-top: 0
    }

Nothing I try makes any difference - after conversion first image has its own page. When I inspected the code (viewing mobi in calibre viewer), I saw 'mobipagebreak' and lots of of other crud there.
I'm using default > default settings.

Hopefully someone can spot what's wrong.

travger · 05-03-2014, 03:41 PM

Narrowed the culprit down:

Code:

<h2 class="head"><a class="calibre14" href="../Text/toc.html#filepos650277"><span class="calibre5">C</span><span class="calibre6">HAPTER</span><span class="calibre5">1</span></a></h2>

converts as I want it to. (I removed space after 'chapter')

Why won't the conversion accept empty space? Never had a problem with that before.

Sunlite · 05-04-2014, 04:25 AM

You should take a look at the option 'Detect chapters at (XPath expression)' on top of the conversion settings and the reaction to a detected 'chapter' (pagebreak, rule, both or none).

Maybe something there can tell you what goes wrong.

travger · 05-04-2014, 06:40 AM

The xpath expression is the one that came with Calibre. I don't even begin to understand it:

Code:

//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\s*((chapter|book|section|part)\s+)|((prolog|prologue|epilogue)(\s+|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']

But if this needs to be changed, then why does a heading without space (e.g. chapter1) work?

p.s. - I tried replacing class = 'chapter' with class = 'himg1'. Didn't work.

05-03-2014, 03:41 PM	#2
travger Evangelist Posts: 485 Karma: 270594 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: palm tx, Windows7, Galaxy A5	Narrowed the culprit down: Code: <h2 class="head"><a class="calibre14" href="../Text/toc.html#filepos650277"><span class="calibre5">C</span><span class="calibre6">HAPTER</span><span class="calibre5">1</span></a></h2> converts as I want it to. (I removed space after 'chapter') Why won't the conversion accept empty space? Never had a problem with that before.

05-04-2014, 06:40 AM	#4
travger Evangelist Posts: 485 Karma: 270594 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: palm tx, Windows7, Galaxy A5	The xpath expression is the one that came with Calibre. I don't even begin to understand it: Code: //[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\s((chapter\|book\|section\|part)\s+)\|((prolog\|prologue\|epilogue)(\s+\|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter'] But if this needs to be changed, then why does a heading without space (e.g. chapter1) work? p.s. - I tried replacing class = 'chapter' with class = 'himg1'. Didn't work.

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05-04-2014, 04:25 AM	#3
Sunlite Addict Posts: 206 Karma: 547516 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: KObo Clara, Kobo Aura, PRS-T1, PB602, CyBook Gen3	You should take a look at the option 'Detect chapters at (XPath expression)' on top of the conversion settings and the reaction to a detected 'chapter' (pagebreak, rule, both or none). Maybe something there can tell you what goes wrong.