Comment 13 for bug 1816346

My current problems are not really in your department. I want to end up
with a kindle on KDP. They don't support AZW3, do support Word, Mobi,
and EPub. They seem to want me to feed my Word document into their
converter, which is very elaborate and agonizingly slow, at least on a Mac.

I think I also have the option of giving them an EPub or Mobi file, but
how it will work on their software I don't know.

Incidentally, when I double clicked on my AZW3 file it came up in
kindle, but with some random glitches, chunks of text that are in a
smaller font for no detectable reason.

I think I've done enough for tonight. You should persuade KDP to license
calibre instead of their conversion software, but I doubt they would be
willing. Tomorrow I'll figure out how to get one of my files into their
system.

I don't remember having so much trouble with the previous book that I
turned into a Kindle and put on KDP. Either I've forgotten whatever
short cut I used or they have gotten more complicated.

Good night and again thanks.

On 2/20/19 7:40 PM, Kovid Goyal wrote:
> You're welcome, I meant put it in the look and feel section of the
> conversion dialog, it should work from there. See https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html#how-options-are-set-saved-for-conversion
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:29:55AM -0000, David Friedman wrote:
>> Many thanks. I initially assumed you meant to put it in
>>
>> Preferences/conversion/common options/look and feel/styling
>>
>> So that the conversion would automatically do it. That didn't work. So I
>> used the editing window to paste your code into the beginning of
>> Styles/0001.css and that did it. Less work than a search and replace on
>> all the .td styles.
>>
>> I believe that solves my last problem. I've just made a donation to
>> Calibre--you surely are entitled to it.
>>
>> On 2/20/19 1:05 AM, Kovid Goyal wrote:
>>> You dont need to edit it by hand, use the extra CSS setting in the
>>> conversion pipeline, with something like:
>>>
>>> td { padding: 0.1ex !important }
>>>
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1816346
>>
>> Title:
>> Tabs in MSWord docx don't convert properly
>>
>> Status in calibre:
>> Won't Fix
>>
>> Bug description:
>> I am converting a cookbook from MSWord to EPub, in order to create a
>> kindle. Recipes have a list of ingredients, typically two on a line
>> with a tab separating them. In Word that gives me two neat columns. In
>> the EPub, the tab is replaced by a fixed number of spaces. Since the
>> number of characters in the first item on the line varies, the second
>> column is ragged.
>>
>> Also, I haven't figured out how to change the fixed number of spaces.
>> I tried spacing my tab stops farther apart and it had no effect I
>> could see. The output in the EPub looks like
>>
>> 2 c flour 1T sugar
>> t salt 1 cup milk
>> 1 sticks cinnamon 2T butter
>>
>> Instead of:
>>
>> 2 c flour 1T sugar
>> t salt 1 cup milk
>> 1 sticks cinnamon 2T butter
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong? Is there a fix?
>>
>> Calibre version: 3.39.1
>> OSX 10.12.6
>> I'm attaching my Word file. This page seems to only let me attach one file, so I can't also send you the ePub. Am I missing something?
>>
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