Removing unwanted white space

JayLaFunk · 03-19-2010, 08:54 AM

Hi Valloric,

First of all thanks for your app been using for search & replace to clean up some ebooks but I have a few ebooks that I need to clean up and remove unwanted white spaces, I am opening them up in Sigil in code view and I'm trying to use the tip below but I can't see yellow color text in code view, this will prob be a very easy thing to do to for most people but I'm not that clued up to editing, could someone post a screen grab and show me how to do what I want...

Regards
Jay

To remove the white space between the paragraphs, add this to the bottom of the CSS code (the yellow color text in the Code View):

p {margin: 0; padding: 0;}

This will affect only the paragraph spacing. To remove all the whitespace between the various elements and make the document look more "book like", use this code:

body, div, p, h1, h2, h3, h4 { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

Valloric · 03-19-2010, 09:36 AM

OK, which version of Sigil are you using? The 0.2.0 betas or 0.1.9?

The CSS code will probably be in a different CSS file if you're using 0.2.0. You should see a file in the "Styles" folder in the Book Browser.

JayLaFunk · 03-19-2010, 09:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Valloric

OK, which version of Sigil are you using? The 0.2.0 betas or 0.1.9?

The CSS code will probably be in a different CSS file if you're using 0.2.0. You should see a file in the "Styles" folder in the Book Browser.

Hi,

I am using 0.1.9 (Win 7), would I be better to upgrade to 0.2.0

Jay

theducks · 03-19-2010, 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JayLaFunk

Hi,

I am using 0.1.9 (Win 7), would I be better to upgrade to 0.2.0

Jay

0.2 is very much Beta. There is a file name with spaces bug that will be corrected in the next release. Removing spaces from files inside the EPUB is a PITA

if there are very many splits.

roger64 · 03-19-2010, 11:33 AM

Beware, I am just a beginner on CSS. This time I succeeded to reduce the white space between paragraphs.

The epub text is coming from a foreign source and has been converted from an odt file by calibre as an EPUB .

I opened this epub file with Sigil 0.2, I looked at an xhtml file with code view and I identified the P11 paragraph style as being the most used (why? mystery?) : see joint texte.png on the right

I then opened the css stylesheet at P11 and reduced to zero the values of margin-bottom and margin-top which were set at 1em (all the others values related to margin and padding were already at zero): see joint style.png

That was enough to do the trick.

I am not sure at all this is academic but it works. Now I have one line between paragraphs instead of three.

03-19-2010, 08:54 AM	#1
JayLaFunk Connoisseur Posts: 94 Karma: 538 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: iPad	Removing unwanted white space Hi Valloric, First of all thanks for your app been using for search & replace to clean up some ebooks but I have a few ebooks that I need to clean up and remove unwanted white spaces, I am opening them up in Sigil in code view and I'm trying to use the tip below but I can't see yellow color text in code view, this will prob be a very easy thing to do to for most people but I'm not that clued up to editing, could someone post a screen grab and show me how to do what I want... Regards Jay To remove the white space between the paragraphs, add this to the bottom of the CSS code (the yellow color text in the Code View): p {margin: 0; padding: 0;} This will affect only the paragraph spacing. To remove all the whitespace between the various elements and make the document look more "book like", use this code: body, div, p, h1, h2, h3, h4 { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

03-19-2010, 11:33 AM	#5
roger64 Wizard Posts: 2,623 Karma: 3000161 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kindle PW3 (wifi)	Beware, I am just a beginner on CSS. This time I succeeded to reduce the white space between paragraphs. The epub text is coming from a foreign source and has been converted from an odt file by calibre as an EPUB . I opened this epub file with Sigil 0.2, I looked at an xhtml file with code view and I identified the P11 paragraph style as being the most used (why? mystery?) : see joint texte.png on the right I then opened the css stylesheet at P11 and reduced to zero the values of margin-bottom and margin-top which were set at 1em (all the others values related to margin and padding were already at zero): see joint style.png That was enough to do the trick. I am not sure at all this is academic but it works. Now I have one line between paragraphs instead of three. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by roger64; 03-19-2010 at 11:45 AM. Reason: typos

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03-19-2010, 09:36 AM	#2
Valloric Created Sigil, FlightCrew Posts: 1,982 Karma: 350515 Join Date: Feb 2008 Device: Kobo Clara HD	OK, which version of Sigil are you using? The 0.2.0 betas or 0.1.9? The CSS code will probably be in a different CSS file if you're using 0.2.0. You should see a file in the "Styles" folder in the Book Browser.