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EditorOne · 08-01-2014, 12:46 PM

I haven't found anything on this problem in the forum, but Sigil sometimes creates unnecessary code that makes no difference in how the paragraph is rendered. More than anything, it's annoying because I want clean CSS.

Example:

EditorOne is a freelance writer and editor . . .

Frequently, when I insert bold or italic codes in the CSS, it is transformed later to include the style definition for whatever style has been defined before--sometimes paragraphs before. Its presence or absence does not affect the way the paragraph looks. (I work in code, not page view.)

Example:

I also couldn’t hide the fact that I was living off of $40.00 per week for food and any other items I needed. Forty dollars is all that I had left each week after paying my monthly minimums on credit cards (used for medical co-pays, fees for diagnostic testing, and prescription co-pays) along with other required bills we all have (like car insurance, gas, rent). It was there, in Guam, that my friends (my budding 'ohana) would develop the idea of putting together a fundraiser with the hope of paying off a quickly growing mountain of medical debt. The work of this group of educational consultants on my behalf led to new hope in ways I could have never imagined. 

These span styles restate the paragraph style from the stylesheet. I thought that span styles are used to interrupt the current applied style for an intentional change, not to simply restate the style for no purpose.

However, today I found a span style that actually changed the size of the font in a paragraph which was not used anywhere in the previous or following paragraphs.

These styles seem to appear spontaneously after I have closed and saved and then open. Can anyone shed light on this?

08-01-2014, 12:46 PM	#1
EditorOne Jus' Learnin' Posts: 50 Karma: 5618 Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Tucson, AZ Device: none	Unnecessary Spontaneous Span Codes I haven't found anything on this problem in the forum, but Sigil sometimes creates unnecessary code that makes no difference in how the paragraph is rendered. More than anything, it's annoying because I want clean CSS. Example: <p class="first"><b style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2em; text-indent: 0em;">EditorOne</b><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2em; text-indent: 0em;"> is a freelance writer and editor . . . Frequently, when I insert bold or italic codes in the CSS, it is transformed later to include the style definition for whatever style has been defined before--sometimes paragraphs before. Its presence or absence does not affect the way the paragraph looks. (I work in code, not page view.) Example: <p><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2em; text-indent: 2em;">I also couldn’t hide the fact that I was living off of $40.00 per week for food and any other items I needed. Forty dollars is all that I had left each week after paying my monthly minimums on credit cards (used for medical co-pays, fees for diagnostic testing, and prescription co-pays) along with other required bills we all have (like car insurance, gas, rent). It was there, in Guam, that my friends (my budding</span> <i style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2em; text-indent: 2em;">'ohana</i><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2em; text-indent: 2em;">) would develop the idea of putting together a fundraiser with the hope of paying off a quickly growing mountain of medical debt. The work of this group of educational consultants on my behalf led to new hope in ways I could have never imagined.</span><br /></p> These span styles restate the paragraph style from the stylesheet. I thought that span styles are used to interrupt the current applied style for an intentional change, not to simply restate the style for no purpose. However, today I found a span style that actually changed the size of the font in a paragraph which was not used anywhere in the previous or following paragraphs. These styles seem to appear spontaneously after I have closed and saved and then open. Can anyone shed light on this?