[QUOTE=Education;2774334]The discouraging news seems to be that there seems to be no way of converting word into a good epub.[.QUOTE]
There are, several actually. They were mentioned here. I am not in favor of the Calibre route myself, since I really don't like the code Calibre produces. Utterly chaos and counter-intuitive in my opinion.
After all, they are different formats all together. There is no 'automagic converter that read your mind on how it must look'.
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Originally Posted by Education
Toxaris, you mention: "Once the ePUB is created, make any changes there". The issue is that I am not a html pro (I am just writing a book), but once I start editing directly in Sigil, it seems that it will soon require me to have a good working knowledge of html.
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Well, yes. If you want to style your ePUB, you need to know HTML. That comes with the territory. An ePUB is formatted in HTML, so for changes at least basic knowledge about HTML/CSS is required to have control.
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So, I need to think about what to do going forward. As an aside, had a basic question. It looks like epub/sigil does not recognize "formatting styles" of word. For example, I created a style for "normal italic" and applied it to some portions of the word-doc, but when I view it in epub/sigil, those portions just come up as "normal" (and not "italicized). So, does it mean I have to "re-do" all the formatting (bold, italics, underline etc. etc.) that I had done in the word doc, in the epub file?
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No. It depends on how you use it. Don't create a style just for italic. Just use the italic button. Styles are about identifying the content. For example to identify what a header is, or a letter, or copyright information. That a style can be formatted to look different is actually a bonus (although most people misuse it for that). By saving as filtered HTML, you get an internal stylesheet in the HTML document that is atrocious. You are usually better of by deleting it. That will mean you loose the formatting. No real issue, it can be recreated with a stylesheet.
My add-in at the moment retains the stylesheet names if you want, but not the formatting. That is by design. However, since the names can be retained, the semantics are preserved. So, when you create a stylesheet, you can add classes with that name to control the formatting. In the next version I will add the possibility to retain some formatting, it will be put in the stylesheet automatically. That should help people without HTML/CSS knowledge to get started.