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Old 08-09-2013, 09:32 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by argomax View Post
By simple trial-and-error procedure I was able to figure out several shortcuts to create clean indents (5 spaces: works wonders!)
for best results, pretty much any kind of spacing should be done using CSS

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Do I get it right that, although colour and fonts will not carry thru, BOLD, UNDERLINE and ITALIC always will?
i don't recall seeing a reader that didn't render <b> / <strong> / <i> / <em>, but <u> is deprecated and will invalidate the epub. as an alternative, you can:

Code:
<span class="underline">underlined text</span>
with the CSS:

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.underline {
    text-decoration:underline;
}
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And do I get it right that only some RELATIVE font sizes will carry thru, such as 10, 12, 18, but not intermediate ones? By "relative" I mean bigger or smaller than the adjacent ones.
this is sort of unclear because i'm not sure what 10,12 and 18 refer to (ODT font size?), but in the CSS you'd be specifying 'font-size:1em' or some relative unit of measurement.

Sigil is a really good (and free) epub authoring tool, that you might be interested in checking out if you haven't already. it's great that you've found a solution using OpenOffice and Calibre, but the relatively slight learning curve moving over to sigil i think will give you much better control over how your book is going to look, and help you more quickly resolve layout issues you might be having.

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