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Well it does modify a body style if it exists in the css to strip margins from it (just not "named" body style classes), and for the majority of calibre users who don't set negative defaults it will be writing @page margins. Given that this feature is still a WIP with Idolse possibly making further changes I'd rather leave it as is than faff around updating all the docs and screenshots and then end up changing it all back again later.
I'm going to have to put a new version of Quality Check out as well to match the updates made for this version. That won't be out until the weekend as another change already pending for it needs the next calibre release. |
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All the above is hypothetical/moot anyway, so thanks all and I'm good to go. |
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marked:epub_manifest_files_missing
I have a few files that are flagged by the marked:epub_manifest_files_missing pass in Quality Check.
E.g. ... Calibre library\Wodehouse, P G\The Gold Bat (37)\The Gold Bat - Wodehouse, P G.epub Manifest file missing from ePub: OEBPS/../cover.jpeg But when I run "Remove missing file entries from manifest," nothing is changed. Could anyone tell me what might be happening here, please? And/or advise me how to fix the file manually. Many thanks. |
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@44reader - send me a PM with a link to one of the ePubs that has the issue and I will take a look. It sounds like a bug in one or the other plugin since the results are supposed to be consistent between them.
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v1.2.9 Released
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v.1.2.9 looks good from the description. Well done.
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I do have another feature request. I'd like to be able to modify the paragraph indent. Most ePub have an indent that's too large (5%) or too small (1em) and it would be nice to be able to change it to a value we find more appropriate.
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Yeah we would all love that capability, along with setting preferred justification, and top/bottom margins for paragraphs. And of course the ability to have different indentation for the opening paragraph of a scene... And heading margins/alignment. And...
It is utterly and completely unlikely to ever happen. Not even calibre which completely reconstructs a stylesheet and rewrite all the html pages tries to attempt it. First you've got the myriad of ways a style can be declared - named, non-named, inline, etc and then the complications of style inheritance. But quite apart from all that what actually signifies a "paragraph" in the ePub? You've got so many variations of paragraphs that will be used in an ePub - blockquote vs paragraph vs div, you've got the even bigger problem of scene text, quotes, headings, opening paragraph, true body, scene breaks... Its just a non-starter. |
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Another feature idea is to remove line-height. A lot of the time, the publisher puts in line-height when they aren't needed and by removing them, it makes the lines not too spaced out.
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Re the line-height, don't get me started. A construct that should be completely banned from epubs for the utter stupidity with which they are frequently overused to the detriment of allowing the epub to be displayed under the control of the ereader device defaults. I already floated the idea of having it as an option for this plugin on the development thread for it not so long ago.
However there are two edge cases I am aware of/was reminded of where arguably they appear to be "needed" - one is when you have dropcaps on an opening paragraph (or else you get a slight additional margin under the first line). The other is for some particular embedded fonts which otherwise will leave the lines too spaced out (unless you remove the font-family). So in 99.9% of cases they can and should be removed, but the virtually impossible to automatically detect edge cases put it in the same bucket as indents, margins, justification, font families and font sizes as crap that we have to manually manipulate on every frigging epub because there is no standard for styles and the overly complex flexibility offered with css/html. |
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