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Originally Posted by RWood
For example, if I was to center a short line and bold it then in the resultant eBook it will shift into a Subtitle and shift font if the Body and Subtitle paragraph styles have different fonts defined. This bothers me the most when setting the “slug” line under a graphic.
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There is a workaround. BD considers all centred text to be a subtitle. So, when making the Sony Reader books I just set the subtitle font to be identical with the paragraph font. The result is centred ordinary text. (Obviously this only works if you don't need subtitles elsewhere in the text.) I worked that one out while desperately wrestling with T S Eliot's 'The Waste Land' (which makes crocodiles seem tractable and amenable beings).
Yes, BD sometimes does ignore paragraph breaks and deliver a whole novel of unparagraphed text. I've discovered that this is sometimes due to the manual line breaks. If you replace all manual line breaks with paragraph breaks in the source document then, 90% of the time, the problem sorts itself out.
For the remaining 10%, I just copy and paste the text into BD. This almost always preserves the paragraphing. However, because the file hasn't been through Book Cleaner, the emdashes will turn into hyphens. So I do this:
1. In the source text, change all emdashes to #.
2. Paste into BD.
3. Use find and replace to change all # into emdashes.
This only takes a couple of minutes with an average novel. But I've got used to BD's strange little ways over the course of the last year, and can understand that many other people don't find it the most endearing program about, when it is new and strange.
I'm wondering whether there is sufficient demand for me to compile a list of BD hints and tips.
After 17th July, I'm largely free for the summer, so would then have time for this. On the other hand, there might not be a demand, especially given the prediliction for crocodile-wrestling, Calibre or other conversion tools.