@Hitch,
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Originally Posted by Hitch
Hi, Bob:
Yes, I've noted that before. Truth be told, I just bloody like SIGIL and don't want to give it up. I haven't found the LO-->WXH export-->EPUB to be that great, really. I'll try it (as I've tried everything else), but one of the unintended consequences of this is that when we've tested LO import of Word files, some of the formatting seems to be lost. Now, that's probably not a big deal for someone doing their own book--they'd instantly know, "oh, hell, my italics formatting disappeared!," or whatever, but for commercial production, that's an issue. We obviously can't afford to be dropping formatting hither and yon.
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We have different needs - in your case you get pretty good original stuff (i.e. all the words are right) with perhaps poor formatting; a lot of mine starts off as really messy OCRd text from Archives.org and I need to do a lot of manual editing and re-formatting to knock it into shape. The extensibilty of LO makes it useful with some great regex based alternative S&R additions - I often use OOOFBTools just for its text-tidying ability (I've stopped using FB2 as my preferred Ebook format). As I use LO as my normal WP it all works seamlessly for me
Anyway, I have noticed that in LO some italics are not true italic - they look like italic but can't be found via the normal italic search; they seem to use a variant of "character posture" it may be ones like this that are getting mis-imported.
Beware also that the standard Writer2XTHML doesn't work with current editions of LO - you need to get a patched version - have a look at this :
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=224
BobC