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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Your doing an ePub > ePub conversion. That's where you've gone wrong. Take the most original ePub you can and run it through Sigil to do your changes. It will work a lot better.
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Oh, that's not good news. I was hoping to use some of Calibre's correcting tools to semi-automatically fix things like stray hyphens, embedded fonts, TOCs in tables, paragraph spacing, etc. I expect I will need to use Sigil for some things, like missing scene breaks, but I was hoping to do a lot of the other things by simply running them through ebook-convert. That would get the bulk of the work done, and the rest I could do as I encounter them while reading.
I did spend some more time trying to figure out what was going on with extra-css, though. My understanding of how extra-css works, from reading the manual, is that whatever you specify gets added to the end of the epub stylesheet. What I've seen, however, is that it seems to modify existing elements, rather than create new ones at the end of the stylesheet. I also noticed that whatever I specified for paragraph margin values in extra-css was affecting values in classes that weren't used for paragraphs. Is that why you say converting epub to epub is a bad idea? Because it doesn't keep track very well of which stylesheet classes are for what? What about things that operate only on the html, and not the css, like stray hyphen removal?
Thanks,
Denver