Please stop adding extra paragraphs??

[wjBLqf-_9]

In the comments sections of books...

Calibre is doing something that annoys me! :-(

Please give me a setting I can flip to disable this "add an extra blank line for every line break"

When I past four lines of text (*.txt file, not html)

Line 1 = dog
Line 2 = [blank-line]
Line 3 = ran
Line 4 = [blank-line]
Line 5 = home

It always comes out with source code like this
Line 1 = <p>dog</p>
Line 2 = [blank-line] ---> <p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI, sans-serif'; font-size: small"><br></p>
Line 3 = <p>ran</p>
Line 4 = [blank-line] ---> <p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI, sans-serif'; font-size: small"><br></p>
Line 5 = <p>home</p>

Which makes the readable text look like this
Line 1 = dog
Line A = [extra added blank white space]
Line 2 = [blank-line]
Line B = [extra added blank white space]
Line 3 = ran
Line C = [extra added blank white space]
Line 4 = [blank-line]
Line D = [extra added blank white space]
Line 5 = home

[BetterRed]

See post#2 in Unwanted extra spaces in Comment section Ψ³

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[wjBLqf-_9]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

See post#2 in Unwanted extra spaces in Comment section Ψ³

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I did this. I then tested it: adding a fresh new title to the library, and pasting the comments I wanted. Instantly after clicking "okay" to the edit metadata window... the extra lines appeared.

The **only** place I have this problem is in the "Comments" field.

Thoughts?

[wjBLqf-_9]

I posted a manual work around to this behavior new to 4.x

I also posted a template instructions to search/replace with a manual work around

[kovidgoyal]

If you want to insert <br> insteadof <p> press shift+enter instead of Enter

[un_pogaz]

It seems that the QtWebEngine doesn't handle empty paragraphs with only a line break.

1) Written text
2) Code created
3) Rendered
4) Comparison with 3 lines Plain Text

I'm just writing and switching between "Normal View" and "Source HTML".
And is QtWebEngine because this problem appeared in the V4.
This is a third party module, but if any parameter can solve it, Thanks

[kovidgoyal]

Are you saying that <p>a</p><p><br></p><p>b</p> is not preserved, or something else?

[Quoth]

There is a bug. Extra <p></p> are added unless there are NO paragraphs, only <br />, line breaks. Which are not paragraphs. Copy & Paste used to work as expected. Nor import of the meta data automatically from docx document properties. Extra <p></p> are inserted.
Now one has to edit out all the paragraphs using BS and do Shift Return, or edit the HTML and replace all paragraph tags, </p><p></p><p> with <br/> except there are actual carriage returns between each </p> and <p>

If you leave in paragraph tags in the body, they seem to mostly change to adding an extra blank
blah.</p>
<p>Stuff.</p>

becomes

blah.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Stuff.</p>

But this is OK
blah.<br/>
Stuff.<br/>

However it's not the same thing.

[BetterRed]

In pictures:

I type in Normal view



I go into HTML source and see this



I go back to Normal view and I see this



And that's what I see in Book Details



I thought I had 'fixed' this by tweaking L&F Book Details->Text styling

body, td {
    background-color: transparent;
}

body.horizontal table td.title { white-space: nowrap }


p { margin: 0} 

a {
    text-decoration: none;
}

.comments {
    margin-top: 0;
    padding-top: 0;
    text-indent: 0
}

.comments-heading {
    font-size: larger;
    font-weight: bold
}

table.fields {
    margin-bottom: 0;
    padding-bottom: 0;
}

table.fields td {
    vertical-align: top
}

table.fields td.title {
    font-weight: bold
}

.series_name {
    font-style: italic
}

/*
The HTML that this stylesheet applies to looks like this:

<snip>

<h3 class="comments-heading">Custom comments column heading</h3>
<div id="_customcolname" class="comments">...</div>
*/

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[kovidgoyal]

I cannot replicate that with a default stylesheet in preferences->look & feel->book details. With that pressing enter, shift+enter and enter again to create <p><br></p> renders are two blank lines always, everywhere.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Spoiler:

In pictures:

I type in Normal view

Attachment 176431

I go into HTML source and see this

Attachment 176432

I go back to Normal view and I see this

Attachment 176433

And that's what I see in Book Details

Attachment 176434

I thought I had 'fixed' this by tweaking L&F Book Details->Text styling

body, td {
    background-color: transparent;
}

body.horizontal table td.title { white-space: nowrap }


p { margin: 0} 

a {
    text-decoration: none;
}

.comments {
    margin-top: 0;
    padding-top: 0;
    text-indent: 0
}

.comments-heading {
    font-size: larger;
    font-weight: bold
}

table.fields {
    margin-bottom: 0;
    padding-bottom: 0;
}

table.fields td {
    vertical-align: top
}

table.fields td.title {
    font-weight: bold
}

.series_name {
    font-style: italic
}

/*
The HTML that this stylesheet applies to looks like this:

<snip>

<h3 class="comments-heading">Custom comments column heading</h3>
<div id="_customcolname" class="comments">...</div>
*/

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I have exactly the same experience.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I cannot replicate that with a default stylesheet in preferences->look & feel->book details. With that pressing enter, shift+enter and enter again to create <p><br></p> renders are two blank lines always, everywhere.

Kovid I didn't press enter, shift+enter after 'line 2'. I pressed enter, enter. Doing that in 3.48 emits this HTML:

<div>line 1<div>line 2</div><div><br></div><div>line 3</div><div>line 4</div></div>

Which doesn't create the extra blank line in the rendered text.

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[kovidgoyal]

What is it you are actually trying to do?? If you want to create a blank line, with the default stylesheet just press enter once and start typing the next paragraph. If you want to insert a line-break press shift enter and start typing the next line.

And yes calibre 4 is not going to behave like calibre 3 in this respect as I have explained ad nauseum.

[kovidgoyal]

And this will preserve the inserted <p><br></p> as a single blank line, at the cost of it now looking like: <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty"><br></p>

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...4c2e26c7edfb50

[BetterRed]

↑ ↑ ↑ ✔ - Thanks

The only suggestion to use shift+enter I can find is this one https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...43&postcount=4

I must have missed it. It also got conflated it with the p { margin: 0} solution.

Added : I don't really care what the code looks like - for simple notes etc I rather not have to look at it.

BR