12-29-2013, 03:30 PM | #31 |
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Calibre takes nbsp and turns it into A0!
Since nbsp makes headaches in Sigil, I am not surprised it causes problems in Calibre. At the fantastic rate this editor has come into being, it is not surprising there are a few problems. |
12-29-2013, 03:54 PM | #32 |
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<p class"something"> is invalid HTML. It should be <p class="somthing">.
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12-29-2013, 05:15 PM | #33 | |
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@mrmikel - sorry, I misinterpreted your comment as meaning 'non breaking spaces' should be removed irrespective of their representation - hence 'banished'. I don't care if its represented by , #160, an A0, or a cube of sugar - as long as I can 'see' it when I'm reading the book. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 12-29-2013 at 06:01 PM. Reason: move Off Topic paragraphs |
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12-30-2013, 04:38 AM | #34 |
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Hey guys, please let's stay focused or nobody (Kovid less than anyone else) is going to pay attention to the POSSIBLE BUG posted in the thread:
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12-30-2013, 05:09 AM | #35 |
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good points.
For the record I tested twice, once before starting the thread then again after jackie posted her method. I gave my detailed steps already, for both sigil & calibre. my current hypothesis is that when you use windows copy + paste, calibre pre-processes the paste & changes the code on the invisible character(s), but does not do that we you pre-select & then open FIND. then it can still be true that both S&R work in the very same way. The "bug" or difference is to do with inconsistencies in the various ways in which you can populate the find box with a string containing an invisible character I have returned & deleted the original library book now but there is still the extract which I attached several posts back, if anyone wishes to continue testing. |
12-30-2013, 06:01 AM | #36 |
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Did you try every step with the extract? Because using the extract it made no difference which way I populated F&R it didn't work.
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12-30-2013, 07:32 AM | #37 |
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I did try to reproduce the issue and found the following.
OS: Windows 8 64bit Calibre: portable 1.17 I can populate the 'find' field by either Ctrl + f or by Ctrl + c & Ctrl + v and the copied string contains the nbsp and the search is successful. If I copy the string by right click and 'copy', the nbsp goes missing and is replaced by a normal space. This is also visible by leaving the search out of the equation and pasting into the code itself. With the first way of copying, the nbsp will be marked as the others are. With the second method there is no mark. Pasting into another application will show the same result. Existing nbsp with keyboard action, normal space with right click copying. Using the 'copy' function in another application and pasting into ebook-edit does not lose the nbsp. Last edited by Sunlite; 12-30-2013 at 07:33 AM. Reason: spelling |
12-30-2013, 08:23 AM | #38 | |
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Right-Click & either Copy or Cut converts the Non-Breaking Space into a common one.
So it really seems the issue is in the Copy (Cut) function. You should post it in the Calibre Bugtracker. |
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12-30-2013, 08:27 AM | #39 |
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well done guys - I used right click mouse menu for copy / paste so the above conclusions are consistent with my original experience/ thread starter. will someone who knows exactly how to explain this for Kovid do the bug tracker report please
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12-30-2013, 10:51 AM | #40 |
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Great find
I almost always use the keyboard methods for S&R so I never saw that issue. |
12-30-2013, 11:14 AM | #41 | |
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the most amusing thing about this, in hindsight, is that the book in question was truly awful |
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12-31-2013, 01:57 AM | #42 |
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12-31-2013, 03:05 AM | #43 |
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A possible related issue (or not)
(in unicode flavour) and normal spaces are not distinguished in the autocompletion dropdown menu in the Find/Search text box. I mean, in the book I'm reading (Infinite Jest) there are some possessive "’s" for "commented" texts. Let's say "‘Cheers!’ ’s". And I've wanted to change that space in the middle by a (in unicode flavour). But while typing "’ ’" (through copy/paste, and the GOOD copy/paste through keyboard shortcuts ), the dropdown menu has offered my previous typed "’ ’" with just a normal space. Is this to be expected? Can it be filtered? And another small possible enhancement. Would it be possible to translate the colours used in the editor to that dropdown previous searched/replaced string matches? I mean there's no way to tell the difference between space types in that dropdown lists. |
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