Maintain Blank-Line-Scene-Breaks while converting?

Uluhara · 06-18-2011, 10:52 AM

I need

again ...

I am sloooowly working my way through my ebooks, converting all those texts I collected during the past 10 years ...

I use calibre to convert to htmlz, then take the html, import into word, format to my heart's content and make my ebooks ... works for me

Now I have many texts that use a "blank line" as an indicator for a scene break - if I convert those, the line disappears - I to manually insert it again ...

Is there a way to tell calibre "put something like »scene break here« into every blank line you find in the text I gave you to convert"?

jackie_w · 06-18-2011, 05:54 PM

Assuming by "texts" you mean .txt files, you might have more luck if you convert TXT to EPUB directly.

You will also need to make sure the Convert - TXT Input - Paragraph Style box correctly reflects how your TXTs are formatted.

If "texts" means MSWord .doc files then try saving each .doc as a webpage-filtered .html file before importing to Calibre. Blank lines should be retained in the .html file, they will look something like <p> </p>. Then convert ZIP to EPUB.

06-18-2011, 10:52 AM	#1
Uluhara Connoisseur Posts: 50 Karma: 874 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: sony prs-505	Maintain Blank-Line-Scene-Breaks while converting? I need again ... I am sloooowly working my way through my ebooks, converting all those texts I collected during the past 10 years ... I use calibre to convert to htmlz, then take the html, import into word, format to my heart's content and make my ebooks ... works for me Now I have many texts that use a "blank line" as an indicator for a scene break - if I convert those, the line disappears - I to manually insert it again ... Is there a way to tell calibre "put something like »scene break here« into every blank line you find in the text I gave you to convert"?

06-18-2011, 05:54 PM	#2
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,218 Karma: 16534894 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: Kobo: KA1, ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E. PocketBook: TouchHD3	Assuming by "texts" you mean .txt files, you might have more luck if you convert TXT to EPUB directly. You will also need to make sure the Convert - TXT Input - Paragraph Style box correctly reflects how your TXTs are formatted. If "texts" means MSWord .doc files then try saving each .doc as a webpage-filtered .html file before importing to Calibre. Blank lines should be retained in the .html file, they will look something like <p> </p>. Then convert ZIP to EPUB. Last edited by jackie_w; 06-18-2011 at 05:59 PM.

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