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Originally Posted by Hitch
Ixnay on the soft-hypens-ay. BAD.
P.S., Gregg?
Well, it matters if you're tying to use a Tiff file, sure. Otherwise, stop thinking about the GUI, and think only about what's underneath: the HTML. What you are asking here is essentially: Does the color of the car affect the quality of the engine inside it?
And the answer is, no; the color of the car doesn't affect the quality of the engine inside it; in your particular case, the care you take in putting the engine in, in the FIRST place, affects the final quality of the engine when it's output from OO or LO or Word or Pages or Bob's Big-Boy Word Processor.
Right? Styles = CSS. CSS = "how stuff looks." Styles being mapped to ELEMENTS, like paragraphs versus headings versus blockquotes, will affect how the input works. Don't use paragraph styles, designed to "look big" as chapter heads; use HEADER styles. Don't use paragraph styles with double-indents as blockquotes; use blockquotes (if that's available as a style). Use LISTS, not typed stuff, for lists. Numero Uno Big Bookmaker Rule: first think about what it IS; then worry about what it looks like later. THAT, far more than OO versus LO versus Word, etc., will "matter" to Sigil.
IMHO.
Hitch
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Hitch, Thanks. I do think in styles. It's just using LO one time I got all these span tags all over the place when I used italics. That didn't usually happen in LO, and it never happened in Word, so I freaked out a bit. (Is there a special way of dealing with italics in styles (in LO--I'm not using Word anymore--I could if I absolutely have to though)? I just do everything in the "Text Body" style, and when I have to use italics I just left click and drag over the word or phrase and click the Italics icon on the toolbar.)
And I hear what you're saying about the color of the car and the engine. That is my focus too. But, esp. switching over to Linux, that has seemed a little iffy too. My old process was Word-->html via "Web page filtered" (in Word)-->Sigil. It was flawless. I just had this MsOnormal stuff that was basically cleaned up with a single "replace all."
So my big question now is, How to get the best html from an .odt? Some say convert it right in LO. Others say skip the html and go straight to epub via the Writer2Epub converter in LO. Or convert the .odt in Calibre to an epub. Then there's the Calibre editor where you can enter an html. What do you think?