Mobipocket output

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by itimpi

The XHTML/HTML standards specify the trailing semi-colon for all character entities even if certain browsers handle it being missing.

thanks , as mentioned earlier I used &copy (i'm sure with the ; ) in coding on coffeecup - but it automatically changed it to the symbol which was then carried over into the new editor ....

[kovidgoyal]

@GeoffC regarding your problem of the ruled lines being moved to the top, there was a recent bug fix in the calibre MOBI output that may have fixed this. Try using the latest calibre 0.6 beta (but be warned that it's a beta)

[Amalthia]

last night I was creating a mobi file and some of the images would show up but not others. I found that for the images that did appear there was no space in the image name, after I renamed the missing images to a name that didn't have spaces they worked in mobi. What I'm wondering is why did that happen?

LRF and epub taking the exact same HTML zip file was able to display all the images. Is this a weakness in the mobi format or a bug in Calibre?

[kovidgoyal]

A bug in calibre. Open a ticket and attach the source files

[Ralob]

The mobi conversion for the CyBook is brilliant. Fabulous job. However, while the mobipocket reader and the integrated Calibre viewer both read the mobi output files well, FBreader cannot seem to open them. In fact, it locks up and crashes whenever I try to open it with it. Not a big deal as I am getting my CSS stylesheet in calibre close to FBreader, but is it curious nonetheless. Any ideas?

[kovidgoyal]

I don't use FBReader, so I can't really help you with that. You should try opening a bug report for on the FBReader bug tracker.

[Ralob]

Will do. I was just unsure if I was the only one who had this ptoblem or not.

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by Ralob

However, while the mobipocket reader and the integrated Calibre viewer both read the mobi output files well, FBreader cannot seem to open them. In fact, it locks up and crashes whenever I try to open it with it.

FBReader crashes on uncompressed Calibre MOBI output. Use any2mobi --compress or the 0.6.0 beta (which defaults to compressed).

[Ralob]

Originally Posted by wallcraft

FBReader crashes on uncompressed Calibre MOBI output. Use any2mobi --compress or the 0.6.0 beta (which defaults to compressed).

Brilliant! Thanks for the tip. It worked well.

[kindleformatting]

I'm not sure if this is a bug report or something I am doing wrong. I have installed a couple of revisions of the 0.6 beta, and non of them let me use any2mobi. Is it broken in some way?

[kovidgoyal]

any2mobi is replaced by ebook-convert in 0.6

[dhiru]

dear kovid first thanks for such an excellent software it has changed the way i read news. normally i use iphone & irex iliad for reading especially the economis and business week. on iphone i am using kindle application to read mobi format. however since i upgraded to 6.0 version and later i am not getting section menu and main menu in feeds of the economist and Business week which causes little difficulty in reading on small device like iphone and therefore i have gone back to 5.14 version. any way to get them in 6.4 version.

thanks

[kovidgoyal]

if you're downloading news in MOBI format and have set your output device to Kindle, the the MOBI files will no longer have an inline TOC as it uses the navigation UI of the Kindle for this. Change your output profile to cybook or illiad

[dhiru]

tried cybook and iliad profile. section menu is appearing but main menu is still missing.

thanks

[ectoplasm]

First, thanks to the author for this program.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or my misunderstanding. Trying to convert from epub (from Gutenberg) to mobi for use on my Kindle DX. I wanted to customize the paragraph indent. I found the "Remove spacing between paragraphs" option created too big an indent, so I turned it off and used CSS.

I'm using this CSS:
p {
text-indent:1.5em;
margin: 0;
}

The problem is, no matter what I enter for the text-indent value, the mobi output is always EM, and in whole numbers.

So if I use:
text-indent:1.3em mobi output is width="1em"
text-indent:1.5em mobi output is width="2em"
text-indent:3ex mobi output is width="2em"

If the mobi output would support fractions, such as 1.3em, then the problem is solved. My guess is it should also support whatever CSS and the device supports, so ex, cm, etc. should be allowed.
http://www.fonttester.com/help/css_length_units.html

My workaround is to do a search/replace on the mobi with a hex editor and replace 2em with 4ex, as the ex provides finer control. I can't replace with a fraction like 1.5 because the added characters corrupt the file.