A Couple Questions About News Fetching

[buffaloseven]

I really enjoy the Calibre news fetching capabilities, but I had two questions about it:

1. Is there any way that images can be centered on the page in articles? Right now, the images are always left-aligned, which while not a huge deal, is a small touch that could be made better.

2. Is there any way for the processor to better handle quotes and captions? Right now they're embedded into the ePub as straight

<p>...</p>

blocks, when they really should have some sort of styling applied to them to denote them as separate typographic features.

[DoctorOhh]

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Moved thread to the Recipes forum since this is where the magic of formatting downloaded news articles happens. Hopefully someone will have some insight into your question.

[kovidgoyal]

Both those depend on the source for the news downloads, if images are centered in the source, they will be centered in the output and so on.

You could process the downloaded HTML to do it, by implementing the preprocess_html() method, or using extra_css in the recipe, but the details of those implementations are specific to the source website.

[buffaloseven]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Both those depend on the source for the news downloads, if images are centered in the source, they will be centered in the output and so on.

You could process the downloaded HTML to do it, by implementing the preprocess_html() method, or using extra_css in the recipe, but the details of those implementations are specific to the source website.

Okay; since I haven't seen images centred on my Kobo Glo, despite the source having images centred, it could be a problem specific to markup for the Glo parser. I'll take a peek at seeing if I can re-format the code to fit it there. I'm downloading from Instapaper, which should standardize any code I'm processing.

Thanks for the feedback.

[kovidgoyal]

Many recipes strip out the css by setting no_stylesheets = True, check that the recipes you are using dont do this.