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Sigil ebook creator. Anyone use this can offer some help?

by spectrefax
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Trying to type up epub format of my book using this software but I can't get the editor to make the spacing correctly between paragraphs. It looks correct in the sigil editor, but once I load the page up in adobe digital editions, the spacing between paragraphs is gone.

If anyone can help it would be GREATLY appreciated.
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  • Profile picture of the author spectrefax
    Bump because I'm extremely frustrated. I've been searching the net for hours trying to figure out how to space a simple paragraph in what is supposed to be wysiwyg software and I just can't find it anywhere.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dano1981
      spectrefax could really use some help...

      Anyone have any experience or ideas?

      thank you

      Danni~
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      • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
        Originally Posted by Dano1981 View Post

        spectrefax could really use some help...
        Really? All the help he needs is there in the FAQ Mike linked to.
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        • Profile picture of the author spectrefax
          Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

          Really? All the help he needs is there in the FAQ Mike linked to.
          Very constructive post. :rolleyes:

          The FAQ contains nothing about page formating or commands to use to achieve desired on-page results. If a prerequisite to using the software is to be fluent in HTML/CSS programming, it kind of defeats the whole point doesn't it?
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          • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
            Originally Posted by Mike Hill View Post

            Well, everyone has their own reasons and things but why not use a free PDF creator like PDF Printer. It puts a PDF button right into your Word program. If you don't have MS Word then you can use the open source program called Open Office.

            It will most certainly cause you less grief.
            Well, I understand he wants ePub format and not pdf. Which is fine.

            Originally Posted by spectrefax View Post

            Very constructive post. :rolleyes:

            The FAQ contains nothing about page formating or commands to use to achieve desired on-page results. If a prerequisite to using the software is to be fluent in HTML/CSS programming, it kind of defeats the whole point doesn't it?
            Apperently it is not so wysiwyg... (btw, hitting the enter for getting space usually doesn't work in decent editors)

            Since the "raw material" for epub is HTML - some html knowledge seems to come handy when you need to customize your work.

            Actually, in the FAQ there is a very relevant Q&A. You just need to read it:
            Google Code

            In your case you just need to do the opposite: ADD some numbers instead of zero for margin(s).
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Hill
    Go look at their FAQ page. http://code.google.com/p/sigil/wiki/FAQ

    Simply enter this in the HTML and increase the numbers
    p {margin: 0; padding: 0;}
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    • Profile picture of the author spectrefax
      Originally Posted by Mike Hill View Post

      Go look at their FAQ page. FAQ - sigil - Frequently Asked Questions for Sigil - A WYSIWYG ebook editor. - Google Project Hosting

      Simply enter this in the HTML and increase the numbers
      p {margin: 0; padding: 0;}
      A newly typed page contains no CSS formating (even after saving it) at all and their manual doesn't tell you how to type this up. =/

      It seems to work similar to an HTML WYSIWYG editor and I'd assume simply pressing Enter a few times would write the spacing in the code, but it does not.

      I guess I have to find and copy a CSS code and enter it into my page some how w/o messing it up.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Hill
    Well, everyone has their own reasons and things but why not use a free PDF creator like PDF Printer. It puts a PDF button right into your Word program. If you don't have MS Word then you can use the open source program called Open Office.

    It will most certainly cause you less grief.
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  • Profile picture of the author jonv
    i've tried using other html editors like kompozer and just copy the source from sigil and edit in kompozer. but still comes out qwirky sometimes. my biggest issue was separating pages and chapters, i know which is probably explained in the faqs but i like being spoon fed this kinda info
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