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Update the Look & feel section of the conversion manual to reflect the current conversion dialog
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@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ This group of options controls various aspects of the look and feel of the conve
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.. _font-size-rescaling:
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Font size rescaling
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Fonts
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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One of the nicest features of the e-reading experience is the ability to easily adjust font sizes to
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@ -157,7 +157,34 @@ own line heights. However, this is something of a blunt weapon and should be use
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If you want to adjust the line heights for some section of the input, it's better to use
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the :ref:`extra-css`.
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Paragraph spacing
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In this section you can also tell calibre to embed any referenced fonts into
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the book. This will allow the fonts to work on reader devices even if they are
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not available on the device.
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Text
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~~~~~~~~
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Text can be either justified or not. Justified text has extra spaces between
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words to give a smooth right margin. Some people prefer justified text, others
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do not. Normally, calibre will preserve the justification in the original
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document. If you want to override it you can use the :guilabel:`Text
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justification` option in this section.
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You can also tell calibre to :guilabel:`Smarten punctuation` which will replace
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plain quotes, dashes and ellipses with their typographically correct alternatives.
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Note that this algorithm is not perfect so it is worth reviewing the results.
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The reverse, namely, :guilabel:`Unsmarted punctuation` is also available.
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Finally, there is :guilabel:`Input character encoding`. Older documents
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sometimes don't specify their character encoding. When converted, this can
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result in non-English characters or special characters like smart quotes being
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corrupted. calibre tries to auto-detect the character encoding of the source
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document, but it does not always succeed. You can force it to assume a
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particular character encoding by using this setting. `cp1252` is a common
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encoding for documents produced using Windows software. You should also read
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:ref:`char-encoding-faq` for more on encoding issues.
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Layout
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Normally, paragraphs in XHTML are rendered with a blank line between them and no leading text
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@ -181,17 +208,25 @@ Then, in your source document, mark the paragraphs that need spacing with `class
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If your input document is not in HTML, use the Debug option, described in the Introduction to get HTML
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(use the :file:`input` sub-directory).
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Another useful options is :guilabel:`Linearize tables`. Some badly designed
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documents use tables to control the layout of text on the page. When converted
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these documents often have text that runs off the page and other artifacts.
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This option will extract the content from the tables and present it in a linear
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fashion. Note that this option linearizes *all* tables, so only use it if you
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are sure the input document does not use tables for legitimate purposes, like
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presenting tabular information.
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Styling
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~~~~~~~~~~
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.. _extra-css:
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Extra CSS
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~~~~~~~~~~
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This option allows you to specify arbitrary CSS that will be applied to all HTML files in the
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input. This CSS is applied with very high priority and so should override most CSS present in
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the **input document** itself. You can use this setting to fine tune the presentation/layout of your
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document. For example, if you want all paragraphs of class `endnote` to be right aligned, just
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add::
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The :guilabel:`Extra CSS` option allows you to specify arbitrary CSS that will
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be applied to all HTML files in the input. This CSS is applied with very high
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priority and so should override most CSS present in the **input document**
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itself. You can use this setting to fine tune the presentation/layout of your
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document. For example, if you want all paragraphs of class `endnote` to be
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right aligned, just add::
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.endnote { text-align: right }
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@ -203,41 +238,18 @@ or if you want to change the indentation of all paragraphs::
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to use it to its full potential. You can use the debug pipeline option described above to see what
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CSS is present in your input document.
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Miscellaneous
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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A simpler option is to use :guilabel:`Filter style information`. This allows
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you to remove all CSS properties of the specified types from the document. For
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example, you can use it to remove all colors or fonts.
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There are a few more options in this section.
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Transform styles
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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:guilabel:`No text justification`
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Normally, if the output format supports it, calibre will force the output e-book
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to have *justified* text (i.e., a smooth right margin). This option will turn
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off this behavior, in which case whatever justification is specified in the input document
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will be used instead.
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This is the most powerful styling related facility. You can use it to define
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rules that change styles based on various conditions. For example you can use
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it to change all green colors to blue, or remove all bold styling from the text
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or color all headings a certain color, etc.
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:guilabel:`Linearize tables`
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Some badly designed documents use tables to control the layout of text on the page.
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When converted these documents often have text that runs off the page and other artifacts.
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This option will extract the content from the tables and present it in a linear fashion.
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Note that this option linearizes *all* tables, so only use it if you are sure the
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input document does not use tables for legitimate purposes, like presenting tabular information.
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:guilabel:`Transliterate unicode characters`
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Transliterate unicode characters to an ASCII representation. Use with care because this will
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replace unicode characters with ASCII. For instance it will replace "Михаил Горбачёв"
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with "Mikhail Gorbachiov". Also, note that in cases where there are multiple representations
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of a character (characters shared by Chinese and Japanese for instance) the representation used
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by the largest number of people will be used (Chinese in the previous example).
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This option is mainly useful if you are going to view the e-book on a device that does not
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have support for unicode.
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:guilabel:`Input character encoding`
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Older documents sometimes don't specify their character encoding. When converted, this can
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result in non-English characters or special characters like smart quotes being corrupted.
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calibre tries to auto-detect the character encoding of the source document, but it does not
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always succeed. You can force it to assume a particular character encoding by using this setting.
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`cp1252` is a common encoding for documents produced using Windows software. You should also read
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:ref:`char-encoding-faq` for more on encoding issues.
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.. _page-setup:
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