OpenOffice Styles

[BobC]

I created a book which used a OOO Style called "Quotations". When I built an EPUB the paragraphs which were formatted with the Quotation style had the text class="Quotations"> at the beginning of each paragraph.

Other standard styles such as Preformatted Text W2E warned me it couldn't handle and would treat as Plain Text.

Using LO 3.4.5 an W2E 1.1.15

Is there a list of what styles W2E will handle (other than Headers).

BobC

[eBookLuke]

Originally Posted by BobC

Is there a list of what styles W2E will handle (other than Headers).

Hi BobC,
I'm working to improve style handling in W2E. In the 1.1.15, the styles supported are:

	SupportedStylesList(0) = "Standard"
	SupportedStylesList(1) = "Text body"
	SupportedStylesList(2) = "Heading"
	SupportedStylesList(3) = "Heading 1"
	SupportedStylesList(4) = "Heading 2"
	SupportedStylesList(5) = "Heading 3"
	SupportedStylesList(6) = "Heading 4"
	SupportedStylesList(7) = "Heading 5"
	SupportedStylesList(8) = "Heading 6"
	SupportedStylesList(9) = "Title"
	SupportedStylesList(10) = "Subtitle"
	SupportedStylesList(11) = "Caption"
	SupportedStylesList(12) = "Quotations"
	SupportedStylesList(13) = "Marginalia"
	SupportedStylesList(14) = "Illustration"
	SupportedStylesList(15) = "Horizontal Line"
	SupportedStylesList(16) = "Footnote"

These styles are managed by superimpose a standard CSS. You cannot change parameters in this CSS from the OOo Style Manager, but you can edit the CSS with Calibre after the ePub creation.

What happens in the next release?
In the next release will be support more styles (included Preformatted Text, and you can create your own style calling it w2e_something.
All styles which name starts with w2e_ will be added to the CSS respecting:
– font height
– paragraph's top, left, right, bottom margins
– first line indent

Moreover the 1.1.16 has a better image export quality, many bugs corrected, optional export to Mobipocket format.

You can test the beta by downloading it here

Finally, the user manual is here, I need translators in other languages as soon as will be update…

Thanks

Luke

[BobC]

Luke,

Thanks for the info - I looked further into my problem and have found that the paragraphs with the extra text at the beginning as well as being formatted as "Quotations" style were in a Bullet List so it appears that was upsetting your conversion routine.

Now I have understood what the underlying problem is I can simply change the style to Default where the paragraph in in a List.

That's what comes of importing someone else's HTML into Writer as a basis for a conversion !

BobC

[eBookLuke]

Hi,

can you send your text to writer2epub[at]gmail.com ?

thanks

Luke

[Bertrand]

Originally Posted by eBookLuke

Finally, the user manual is here

Luke

Hi Luke

Something's wrong, there is nothing at this URL ?

[Michael_ZZ]

The link says http://lukesblog/wiki

but it should be http://lukesblog.IT/wiki

@ Luke:
You should definitely take actions against changing the main page by some unregistered users. I've just restored the "Pagina principale" a minute ago. See page history.

BTW - I'm sitting on the German translation of the Wiki.

[eBookLuke]

Originally Posted by Michael_ZZ

but it should be http://lukesblog.IT/wiki

Thanks!

@ Luke:

You should definitely take actions against changing the main page by some unregistered users. I've just restored the "Pagina principale" a minute ago. See page history.

BTW - I'm sitting on the German translation of the Wiki.

Done, and now you're admin.

Do you have idea how to implement multilanguage switch like these?

[Michael_ZZ]

Originally Posted by eBookLuke

Do you have idea how to implement multilanguage switch like these?

Unfortunately I don't. It has been ages since I've edited wiki pages the last time. Maybe that will help you ... I don't understand the template concept. I'd have to really dig into it

MediaWiki Language Template Documentation

[minipunk]

Personal style handling in W2E is a great improvement I think (BTW the whole W2E is great, thx a lot Luke!)

Even (text) color is transformed to CSS. Font-sizes are treated relative. Good.
Though in my experiments bold and italic style declarations do not appear in my CSS-classes (font-weight / font-style). Instead I still get explicite HTML markup inside my <p>'s.

Do I miss something at this point? (W2E 1.1.20, LO 3.4.6)

[eBookLuke]

Originally Posted by minipunk

Personal style handling in W2E is a great improvement I think (BTW the whole W2E is great, thx a lot Luke!)

Even (text) color is transformed to CSS. Font-sizes are treated relative. Good.
Though in my experiments bold and italic style declarations do not appear in my CSS-classes (font-weight / font-style). Instead I still get explicite HTML markup inside my <p>'s.

Do I miss something at this point? (W2E 1.1.20, LO 3.4.6)

Please send me an .odt sample

Luke

[minipunk]

Originally Posted by eBookLuke

Please send me an .odt sample

sent to the writer2epub gmail address. Hope this is fine.

I looked to the source again:
- (regular) headings also get an additional <strong> inside (no css definition for font-weight in <h1> etc).
- CSS: the 'text-decoration' definition for <a> misses a trailing semicolon. Seems to happen in all my w2e epubs.

[eBookLuke]

Originally Posted by minipunk

sent to the writer2epub gmail address. Hope this is fine.

I looked to the source again:
- (regular) headings also get an additional <strong> inside (no css definition for font-weight in <h1> etc).
- CSS: the 'text-decoration' definition for <a> misses a trailing semicolon. Seems to happen in all my w2e epubs.

Both solved, thanks.

I will send to you the next 2.0 beta as soon will be stable

Luke

[minipunk]

Originally Posted by eBookLuke

I will send to you the next 2.0 beta as soon will be stable

Thx, that's great! Looking forward to it

Found some other usecase, where different types of styling techniques unluckily mix together:

A standard heading in LO typically is defined left-aligned, though the resulting epub will have it centered. This is due to the hardcoded text-align: center;
for h1 etc.. (Macro: writer2epub.CSS.CreateCSSFile).
But when the heading's style is defined right-aligned in LO, the resulting epub <h1> gets some additional class="right" overruling the css h1.text-align. The heading now gets aligned to the right as supposed.

For an ordinary, non-technical user this behaviour might be confusing - or magic
(pls tell me if you need example odt's)

[eBookLuke]

Originally Posted by minipunk

Thx, that's great! Looking forward to it
Found some other usecase, where different types of styling techniques unluckily mix together:

I'm working to improve CSS/Styles handling in W2E.
Now the styles are "imposed" by W2E regardless the style displayed in OOo/LibO. In my first mind this is to help "dummy" authors to create a good book.

But now I change my mind, and I wish to make a CSS/Style editor for all styles.
If you have suggestions about the user interface please contact me…

Luke

[minipunk]

Originally Posted by eBookLuke

In my first mind this is to help "dummy" authors to create a good book.

Yep. This indeed makes w2e very valuable/attractive. You probably should keep such a "publish by one click" option.

Originally Posted by eBookLuke

If you have suggestions about the user interface please contact me…

I'll check the beta first and try to give some kind of feedback later