Lectora & strange span behaviour
Lectora breaks some spans while exporting a translated version.
Example:
<div id=”text41624″><a name=”text41624anc”></a>
<p style=”margin-left:15px;text-indent:-15px;line-height:1.127;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:left;” >
<span class=”text41624Font8″ style=”position:relative;top:-0px”>1.</span ><span style=’font:1.0pt “Arial”‘> </span><span class=”text41624Font8″ >El siguiente cap</span ><span class=”text41624Font9″ >í</span ><span class=”text41624Font8″ >tulo:
</span ></p >
The first span: <span class=”text41624Font8″ style=”position:relative;top:-0px”>1.</span > should not be there.
After deleting several chapters and the complete navigation from the Lectora title, the SPANs and DIVs are rendered correctly.
Experiment 2: Removing inherited items from the broken pages.
Result: after removing all inherited items, except for the forwards button, the broken DIVs and SPANs work correctly!
Interesting side note: in the chapters afterwards, in which I did NOT disable inheritance, all DIVs and SPANs also continue to work, no strange numbers or other erratic behaviour. There is something wrong in the first chapter!
Experiment 3: Locating the problematic inherited item
By turning on arrays of inherited items I’ll try to locate the problematic one.
- enabling all navigation: no problems
- nearly all items, except of the comment script: ok
- enabling all items: now everything works again!
If you’re ever stuck in a situation like this, don’t give up just yet. Try things and see if you can fix it by actually returning to the normal state.
Another quick Lectora tip:
When rendering HTML, it offers the option to you to print. If you have a virtual PDF printer installed, you can save some time by “printing” the errors on it, instead of searching through the wad of output in the HTML render dialog.
Tags: Lectora, broken spans, Lectora inserts strange characters, rendering HTML, virtual PDF printer.
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