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Ti-Ron · 03-22-2012, 09:10 AM

Hi all,
this is my first post ever on this forum. I am doing my master in publishing and electronical edition is my specialisation. I am working hard to learn everything by myself and this forum was really helpful. Thanks to all of you.

My first contact with Sigil and epub coding was with the basic tutorial on the Sigil's Wiki page. That was a good start but I had some problems with it.

Here's how it goes:
I start with my words file (.doc) and cleaned it up. Remove unecessary line jump and all the wierd stuff writers put on their manuscript. Then I save this fil in html to finally open it in Sigil. That was good for my first epub but this is a PITA with the CSS.

For an unknown reason words (I use openoffice) put all the CSS sheet in the head of my html file. This add like 470 lines of useless CSS code. This thing makes my file way too big!

To correct that I tried to jump from the .doc straight to Sigil with copy/paste my texte in the book view and then add my CSS style sheet. That's good but I lost all my characteristics. There's no more italic words or bold words in my text, I have to put them back manualy.

So my question is (sorry that was long) is there a way to keep the original formatting without haveing all those CSS codes in my head section?

*Pssst, I'm french, so sorry for the bad english!

03-22-2012, 09:10 AM	#1
Ti-Ron Connoisseur Posts: 80 Karma: 1023042 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Kobo Touch, iPad	First post: Problem between Words and Sigil Hi all, this is my first post ever on this forum. I am doing my master in publishing and electronical edition is my specialisation. I am working hard to learn everything by myself and this forum was really helpful. Thanks to all of you. My first contact with Sigil and epub coding was with the basic tutorial on the Sigil's Wiki page. That was a good start but I had some problems with it. Here's how it goes: I start with my words file (.doc) and cleaned it up. Remove unecessary line jump and all the wierd stuff writers put on their manuscript. Then I save this fil in html to finally open it in Sigil. That was good for my first epub but this is a PITA with the CSS. For an unknown reason words (I use openoffice) put all the CSS sheet in the head of my html file. This add like 470 lines of useless CSS code. This thing makes my file way too big! To correct that I tried to jump from the .doc straight to Sigil with copy/paste my texte in the book view and then add my CSS style sheet. That's good but I lost all my characteristics. There's no more italic words or bold words in my text, I have to put them back manualy. So my question is (sorry that was long) is there a way to keep the original formatting without haveing all those CSS codes in my head section? *Pssst, I'm french, so sorry for the bad english!