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Originally Posted by gmw
Using Format->Paragraph->Spacing is creating a new style (for the current/selected paragraphs), you don't want to do that. You can modify the Normal style directly in your styles and formatting window (in OO/LO you do this by right click on the item in the styles and formatting window and choose Modify). Similarly configure styles for your chapter headings and so on. You may choose to rename the styles to for neatness and clarity.
You should NOT do a select all when altering a style. The style is already applied to all relevant paragraphs, you just modify the style to what you want and all paragraphs using that style will change automatically. (Which is the point of using styles in the first place.)
I use a plug-in for OpenOffice/LibreOffice that produces my epub with all the styles transferred to CSS and so on - including any current paragraph spacing. I can't speak for how things are done in MS-Office (though I have heard that direct export to HTML can be messy).
The sorts of things I check for in my epub CSS file is where the export may have transferred some measurements as px (pixels) or explicit (cm/inch) sizes, rather than % or em (font size). Not generally much a problem now, but I check anyway.
Yep. You can, if you want, leave your spacing in your source file alone and just edit the CSS in the output to get the spacing you want. As noted above, giving your styles neat meaningful names in the source document can help when it comes time to edit the CSS.
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And it's really cool. Basically I just do in the styles what I was doing on the tool bar. (I took your suggestion of getting rid of the toolbar.) One question (I'm sure I'll have more when I study this further): doing italics in styles. I went to make a new style for italics (I named it "italics"), but then, since I wanted to keep the italics for the html, I didn't delete the style "Italics" (because that would've deleted the italics), so I kept the style "italics' in there. But in the html this is what showed up: (I was italicizing Encyclopedia)
<span class=italics>Encyclopedia </span>
I reopened the tool bar and did an italics version that way and in the html it was the familiar <i>Encyclopedia</i>.
It seems italics is the only thing I would need, so is there a way to do italics in styles?
And lastly I'm giving you an apple for being such a great teacher! Thanks!