Turn off auto-formatting of CSS?

[vr8ce]

Is there a way to stop the calibre editor from messing with the CSS formatting? It's formatting choices are odd, not the ones I want, and too many things other than "Beautify" result in a autoreformat (e.g. "Organize into folders"?!?).

I have read and searched through the editor documentation, the editor Settings, and done some other web searches and not turned up anything.

If there is not a way, please consider an Editor setting to leave CSS formatting alone. If there is a way, a pointer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Karellen]

Are you referring to the code in the stylesheet.css?

What exactly is being changed? I've never noticed the editor change anything my my stylesheets.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Karellen

Are you referring to the code in the stylesheet.css?

What exactly is being changed? I've never noticed the editor change anything my my stylesheets.

I was surprised about the word 'odd'. Except for the quirky coloring of the first 2 lines, it seemed to be pretty standard code styled.

[Karellen]

Originally Posted by theducks

Except for the quirky coloring of the first 2 lines, it seemed to be pretty standard code styled.

Umm, did I miss something?
Where do you see coloured lines and standard code styling?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by vr8ce

Is there a way to stop the calibre editor from messing with the CSS formatting? It's formatting choices are odd, not the ones I want, and too many things other than "Beautify" result in a autoreformat (e.g. "Organize into folders"?!?).

I have read and searched through the editor documentation, the editor Settings, and done some other web searches and not turned up anything.

If there is not a way, please consider an Editor setting to leave CSS formatting alone. If there is a way, a pointer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I don't get where you are coming from and what you are doing. The editor never changes the CSS code. I'd edited many many eBooks and not a single time has the editor changed the CSS.

[BetterRed]

Perhaps the OP is referring to calibre changing the manner in which the content of CSS files is presented, not changing the actual text within them. e.g: changing:

p {font-family: verdana; font-size: 20px;}

to:

p {
  font-family: verdana;
  font-size: 20px;
}

BR

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Perhaps the OP is referring to calibre changing the manner in which the content of CSS files is presented, not changing the actual text within them. e.g: changing:

p {font-family: verdana; font-size: 20px;}

to:

p {
  font-family: verdana;
  font-size: 20px;
}

BR

If that is the case, then I'm thinking that "Beautify individual file automatically when they are opened". is selected If that is the case, then Edit > Preferences > Editor settings is where that setting is found and can be turned off.

It's also possible that the OP has "Update metadata in the book when opening selected". That can be turned off via Edit > Preferences > Integration with calibre.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Karellen

Umm, did I miss something?
Where do you see coloured lines and standard code styling?

Colored Code (not lines)

Code styling = indented

[vr8ce]

I said nothing about changing the CSS itself, I said the CSS formatting, i.e. the way it looks. I also said it had nothing to do with Beautify, and gave an example of a thing that reformats the CSS. "Beautify individual files on open" is not selected, and neither is "Update metadata in the book…"

[Karellen]

Originally Posted by vr8ce

I said nothing about changing the CSS itself, I said the CSS formatting, i.e. the way it looks.

Nor did I. But I did ask you to specify exactly what is changing.
Is it too hard to provide a before/after example?

Like I said, I have never seen anything change in my css files.
I guess that is because I create them exactly as Calibre expects.

[kovidgoyal]

No, there's no way to do that. Organize into folder causes file paths to change, changing file paths means url resources in CSS sheets potentially have to be re-written, which means they have to be parsed and serialized. And no, I dont have any interest in writing my own CSS parser/serializer that preserves original formatting.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by vr8ce

I said nothing about changing the CSS itself, I said the CSS formatting, i.e. the way it looks. I also said it had nothing to do with Beautify, and gave an example of a thing that reformats the CSS. "Beautify individual files on open" is not selected, and neither is "Update metadata in the book…"

Organize into folders is something you are doing. So it's you that are causing the changes, not Calibre. You chose to do that.

[vr8ce]

Kovid, what third-party (I assume?) library/code/whatever are you using to parse/serialize the CSS?

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by vr8ce

Kovid, what third-party (I assume?) library/code/whatever are you using to parse/serialize the CSS?

css_parser

[vr8ce]

Thanks, I'll look into that more.

Without knowing what else (other than beautify and folders) rewrites (and thus reformats) the CSS, is it possible/practical in the folders case to just have it not rewrite the file if there were no changes? IOW, A is original, B is parsed, C is after folder changes, if B=C, then don't overwrite A.