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Old 06-28-2013, 10:59 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell View Post
I've been looking for an easy way to compose a novel and then seamlessly transfer it to Sigil for the end processing. The best thing I've come up so far is Libre Office (File-->New-->HTML document) and then taking the .html to Sigil. But in Sigil a lot of the punctuation marks show up as html entities. (Which is difficult for me to deal with.) Is there any way that once I'm in Sigil I can convert those html entities (see screenshot) back into regular punctuation marks? Thanks.
Try saving your Libre Office file natively (not html), use Calibre to convert to epub and then edit with Sigil.

It worked for me a couple of years ago with Open Office and assuming Libre Office has the same file structure it may still work. Worth a try.

Over time I have found that converting word processing files makes for messy epubs and have opted to use Notepad++ and drag my files into Sigil one chapter at a time. It is pretty easy and keeps me from getting to cutesy with the formatting (a very good thing).
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