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OK – I inserted a plain text file into Sigil, rather than an HTML file. I had produced the file as plain text via Word and also via Editpad. But when I loaded either file into Sigil, all my special characters, like apostrophes and dashes, were represented as a white questionmarks on black triangles.
How do I stop this happening?
However – I tried cutting and pasting a few pages from Editpad into Sigil, and this preserved the apostrophes etc. I could try this for the full book, but I’d prefer to load the actual file.
The good news is that this short version produced an ePub file that behaved properly in an eBook reader – i.e. I could change fonts and font size. So that’s progress, and it certainly proves Valloric’s point that Word’s HTML export is not to be trusted.
So a plain text file will work, but I would lose special formatting like italics, and, far worse, I would lose indents on the first line of each paragraph.
So ideally I prefer to work with HTML. How can I export a 'cleaner' HTML that's not, for instance, going to specify a fixed font size? I certainly don’t want to tweak code in each of the many chapters in the book. Is there any other Windows word processor that will do a better job? Anyone tried OpenOffice?
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