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Old 02-01-2013, 03:01 AM   #12
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TextEdit puts out clean HTML. If the paragraph and font formatting is complex, you can remove the multiple fonts and multiple font-sizes by selecting the entire text and using the tools on the toolbar to change all the fonts to the same font (but preserving the italic and bold), as well as changing all the font sizes to just one size (or leaving the sizes all the same). Plus, you can examine the HTML code in TextEdit by changing the the preferences to show the HTML codes versus rendering the rich text. Afterwords, you can hand edit the HTML code, and just remove the font property altogether.

Also you can make all the paragraph styles the same using the Copy Ruler / Paste Ruler commands found under Format->Text. This ought to decrease the number of styles in your book down to 1 or 2.
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