diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/epub/from_html.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/epub/from_html.py
index 413bea4801..179c0af22b 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/epub/from_html.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/epub/from_html.py
@@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ class HTMLProcessor(Processor, Rationalizer):
if hasattr(self.body, 'xpath'):
for script in list(self.body.xpath('descendant::script')):
script.getparent().remove(script)
+
+ self.fix_markup()
def convert_image(self, img):
rpath = img.get('src', '')
@@ -145,6 +147,17 @@ class HTMLProcessor(Processor, Rationalizer):
if val == rpath:
self.resource_map[key] = rpath+'_calibre_converted.jpg'
img.set('src', rpath+'_calibre_converted.jpg')
+
+ def fix_markup(self):
+ '''
+ Perform various markup transforms to get the output to render correctly
+ in the quirky ADE.
+ '''
+ # Replace
that are children of with
+ if hasattr(self.body, 'xpath'):
+ for br in self.body.xpath('./br'):
+ br.tag = 'p'
+ br.text = u'\u00a0'
def save(self):
for meta in list(self.root.xpath('//meta')):