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GMcG · 06-05-2014, 02:34 PM

Thanks so far. But it's useless, to change just the doctype declaration. I have tried it. You have to edit the rest of the document too until it fits.
I found out, that "Line 1: whitespace expected" means, that Sigil wants an empty line instead of the doctype declaration. But then all the other messages follow.

So in short: Calibre converts old style html files, Sigil does not. They must be in UTF-8 format, you have to convert them first to the xml type and they have to be well formatted. Otherwise they will be rejected.
Or, as I have done: Create the epub with Calibre, then clean the CSS code in Sigil if wanted.

George

06-05-2014, 02:34 PM	#6
GMcG Writer Posts: 101 Karma: 590630 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Munich, Germany Device: none	Thanks so far. But it's useless, to change just the doctype declaration. I have tried it. You have to edit the rest of the document too until it fits. I found out, that "Line 1: whitespace expected" means, that Sigil wants an empty line instead of the doctype declaration. But then all the other messages follow. So in short: Calibre converts old style html files, Sigil does not. They must be in UTF-8 format, you have to convert them first to the xml type and they have to be well formatted. Otherwise they will be rejected. Or, as I have done: Create the epub with Calibre, then clean the CSS code in Sigil if wanted. George