Has the ePub check gotten more stringent?

[phossler]

Has the ePub check gotten more stringent? (Win 10, ver 7.13)

I never used to get these errors but now the missing generic message, and there seems to be order constraints in a style sheet

ERROR: Unexpected empty block****[jacket.xhtml:75]
ERROR: Unexpected empty block****[jacket.xhtml:80]
ERROR: Unexpected empty block****[jacket.xhtml:85]
ERROR: Unexpected empty block****[jacket.xhtml:90]
ERROR: Unexpected empty block****[jacket.xhtml:111]

ERROR: Unexpected missing generic font family****[styles/Georgia.css:30]

ERROR: Expected selector "figure img" to come before selector ".imageFullHeight img"****[styles/epub_55.css:399]
ERROR: Expected selector "figure img" to come before selector ".imageFullWidth img"****[styles/epub_55.css:399]
ERROR: Expected selector "figure p" to come before selector "blockquote p:last-of-type"****[styles/epub_55.css:402]

I can fix them by adding "serif' and moving lines around, but I don't think I had to before. This book passed originally with no errors, but now i get these

[theducks]

Originally Posted by phossler

Has the ePub check gotten more stringent? (Win 10, ver 7.13)

I never used to get these errors but now the missing generic message, and there seems to be order constraints in a style sheet



I can fix them by adding "serif' and moving lines around, but I don't think I had to before. This book passed originally with no errors, but now i get these

These have been around since 7.x and maybe before.

The jacket code used to have a couple of empty comments: /**/
In most cases a fresh jacket cures or a saved search

I think some of these were added because of publishers rejections.
I just ignore the 'generic font ones and the order, since my edits are for personal use and my Kobo does not barf.

[phossler]

I looked at stylesheet.css in the jacket.xhtml folder:

/*
** To skip a banner item (Series|Published|Rating|Tags),
** edit the appropriate CSS rule below.
*/
table.cbj_header tr.cbj_series {
/* Uncomment the next line to remove 'Series' from banner section */
/* display:none; */
}

but Calibre editor 'drops' comments and thinks it's an empty block since it's nothing but comments:

table.cbj_header tr.cbj_series {


}

Personally, I'd prefer all comments to be left in



My editing is just to make mostly PD books more readable in my Kindle so I have personal style sheet that I use, current version is epub_55.css, so I can just 'fix' them in epub_56.css

My personal CSS has a lot of personal preferences in, but 'Remove Unused CSS Rules' cleans them up. Normally I don't have any empty blocks there

[BetterRed]

Epubcheck is a user installed Editor plugin, the contents of this thread should be moved into the relevant thread in the Plugins subforum where its developer is more likely to see it, see ==>> Index of plugins

BR