02-08-2012, 10:32 AM | #1 |
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Help removing bold text
Hi everyone. I almost never use Sigil so I know I'm probably doing something wrong but here's my problem.
I downloaded a copy of The Great Gatsby from MobileRead. The problem is that all of the text is in bold font, which makes it unreadable for me. I went into Sigil, selected all the text, and selected "remove formatting" (ctrl-space). This removed the bold, but also removed the indenting of the paragraphs, which I don't want. (Please note that just hitting "bold" does nothing, or I would have done this. The only way I've found to remove the bold text is to select "remove formatting.") Now I save the epub, then open it up in Calibre. Everything looks fine, the bold is gone, but the paragraphs are no longer indented. Now I do an epub-to-epub conversion, selecting "remove spacing between paragraphs" so that I can tell it to indent each paragraph by 1.5 em. When it's done, if I open up the book, the indenting is there but ALL of the text is bold once again. I can't figure out how to have un-bold text and indented paragraphs simultaneously. Help? |
02-08-2012, 11:33 AM | #2 |
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The bold font may be from something in the css, if you look in code view you can see all the css classes then you can look in the css file to see what's causing it. If you want, post which copy it is and I can take a look at it.
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02-08-2012, 12:18 PM | #4 |
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I assume you're converting the mobi to epub with calibre and then editing with sigil?
It seems you have your work cut out for you. Unfortunately there are <span class="bold> spans around each (and every) individual paragraph in the main body of the text. You could go into the CSS file and change: Code:
.bold { font-weight: bold } Code:
.bold { font-weight: normal } It looks like there's only two standard body paragraph classes (one for indented, and one for unindented), so maybe there's some regex that would help you remove the bold spans from just those paragraphs. |
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02-08-2012, 12:33 PM | #6 |
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Help removing bold text
Here's one i just fixed after downloding from your link.
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