From a83e99485a6e039065657684c03e51726dd99276 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:56:27 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] DOCX Input: Fix empty paragraphs not being rendered

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/docx/to_html.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/docx/to_html.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/docx/to_html.py
index 0da4764ac9..a5cc3d9447 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/docx/to_html.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/docx/to_html.py
@@ -363,6 +363,10 @@ class Convert(object):
                 wrapper = self.wrap_elems(spans, SPAN())
                 wrapper.set('class', cls)
 
+        if not dest.text and len(dest) == 0:
+            # Empty paragraph add a non-breaking space so that it is rendered
+            # by WebKit
+            dest.text = '\xa0'
         return dest
 
     def wrap_elems(self, elems, wrapper):