Warning, this is a real beginner's question. I kind of know how html/xml works, *and* how CSS works, on a basic level. But not very systematically.
Now I have a number of ebooks from professional publishers where the text is formatted weirdly: paragraphs don't have the first line indented, but instead there's a blank line between every paragraph.
I'd like to remedy this for myself by editing the epubs concerned in Sigil or some other software (hoping of course that it will be a simple matter of changing one or two lines in the css, or doing a search and replace for some code in the other files).
However, when I look at the file in Sigil, I just can't find what is wrong with it. That is, I just can't see how the xml markup (*or* the css) differs from books that don't show this problem -- i.e. where there is no blank line between paragraphs, and their first line is indented.
What would be the obvious place to look?
Here's a sample of text from one of those books:
And in the paragraph styles section of the css, all it says about the "algemeen" class (algemeen is Dutch for general) is this:
And all it says in the section before the <body> tag is this:
I hope this code will be visible here.
Should I look somewhere else?
Now I have a number of ebooks from professional publishers where the text is formatted weirdly: paragraphs don't have the first line indented, but instead there's a blank line between every paragraph.
I'd like to remedy this for myself by editing the epubs concerned in Sigil or some other software (hoping of course that it will be a simple matter of changing one or two lines in the css, or doing a search and replace for some code in the other files).
However, when I look at the file in Sigil, I just can't find what is wrong with it. That is, I just can't see how the xml markup (*or* the css) differs from books that don't show this problem -- i.e. where there is no blank line between paragraphs, and their first line is indented.
What would be the obvious place to look?
Here's a sample of text from one of those books:
Quote:
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<p id="_idParaDest-4" class="hoofdstuk" lang="nl-NL">Chapter title</p> <p class="algemeen" lang="nl-NL">First paragraph This only contains text.</p> <p class="algemeen" lang="nl-NL">And another paragraph like this.</p> <p class="algemeen" lang="nl-NL">And another paragraph like this.</p> |
Quote:
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.algemeen{ font-family:"romein"; font-size:1em; } .groot{ font-family:"romein"; font-size:2em; } .algemeen + .algemeen{ text-indent:15pt; } |
Quote:
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:epub="http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops" epub:prefix="z3998: http://www.daisy.org/z3998/2012/vocab/structure/#" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head/> |
Should I look somewhere else?
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