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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@Toxaris thanks for your response
Re multi paragraph dialogue item - I thought most style guides stipulated that each paragraph starts with a quotation mark, but only the the last has a closing quote mark.
The absence of the closing quote gives a clue that the following paragraph (which should start with a quotation mark), is spoken by the same character. If each paragraph has a closing quotation mark you don't know its a continuation of the previous characters speech.
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That apparently differs per language. In dutch it is not that common. There there is a beginning quote and, if the dialogue goes on over multiple paragraphs, one ending quote. That is also the current behavior. I have to think about this, perhaps I can create an addition for this specific style. There is one problem I have with this however. How would you know if you are just missing the end quote or if the conversation is continued?
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Re the pop-ups - in that dialogue fragment I sent there were 24 pop-ups, I'm reminded of Windows UAC pop-ups, people just click though them 
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Got the point already, I will greatly reduce the number of screens. Actually, almost done already.
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Re the small caps - I only use them in a couple of instances, its in a macro, I'll replace the inline formatting with a style
I tried using a Style but I still don't get small caps in the EPUB. I put the Style name (Title) in Settings->HTML  ¿Why does the ebook world have this 'hang up' with small caps one asks.
Did you notice that in the example I sent the EPUB acquired the string  . There is no such thing in the DOCX, where it would show as '°'.
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I think we mean something different here. If you have smallcaps in the document, they will be converted to CAPS and placed in a span with the class as defined in the settings, if you want to retain them. The characters will not be replaced by/converted to the smallcaps Unicode characters. The reason is because no reader currently support that. All ePUB creators I know use a class to specify either pseudo smallcaps and/or text-transform. That part works. Actually, I made a change today that as of the next release it is not possible to retain smallcaps without specifying a style for it. If that is not what you mean, please contact me with a PB.