txt to epub form feed conversion

[catspajamas]

Hello - I'm new to Calibre and ebooks, so please pardon my ignorance. I've tried using the help and these forums to answer what seems like a simple issue, but I just can't seem to nail it down. Hope I'm not being repetitive.

I have a book in simple text file format. It has dos form feed characters (Hex 0c, octal 014) between the pages. I simply want to convert to epub format and have those show up as page breaks. The Calibre conversion program seems to convert them to an empty string.

Can I simply use my text editor to convert the form feeds to a string Calibre will recognize and convert to a page break?

I have very limited experience working with html tags, so please be gentle. Thank you.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by catspajamas

Hello - I'm new to Calibre and ebooks, so please pardon my ignorance. I've tried using the help and these forums to answer what seems like a simple issue, but I just can't seem to nail it down. Hope I'm not being repetitive.

I have a book in simple text file format. It has dos form feed characters (Hex 0c, octal 014) between the pages. I simply want to convert to epub format and have those show up as page breaks. The Calibre conversion program seems to convert them to an empty string.

Can I simply use my text editor to convert the form feeds to a string Calibre will recognize and convert to a page break?

I have very limited experience working with html tags, so please be gentle. Thank you.

You could read up on Markdown (a Calibre text input preference)
or you could replace the FF with a HTML <hr /> tag and have a custom style for HR with page-break-before: always as one of its properties

[catspajamas]

Your suggestion for a simple substitution solved this immediate problem. Thank you. However, I see I have a long way to go if I want to regularly convert this type of OCR'd document into a more professional epub. Still, this will get me through this book much more nicely, so thanks again