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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
My usual workflow is:
PDF -> OCR -> EPUB -> Tweak + Complete EPUB.
When a book needs to not just be converted, but copyedited (changing from British Spelling -> American, etc. etc.), these extra steps get tacked on:
Tweaked/Completed EPUB -> Convert/Import to DOC(X)/ODT -> Copyediting -> Export DOC(X)/ODT to EPUB -> Tweak + Complete (Copyedited) EPUB.
So I am already inputting a perfectly completed/marked up EPUB. Perhaps I am just not understanding you correctly? Are you saying:
- Do an extra manual pass in Word after the Import, in order to change all blockquote paragraphs to a "Blockquote" style in Word? Then after I can export BACK to EPUB, I can easily see what is a blockquote and what isn't?
... All these fancy Word Processors are definitely not my strong point (I prefer working in straight text/code).  And I am not the one doing the Copyediting, so it might be hard for another person to tell exactly what is what (mistakes can easily be made with just the minor margin top/bottom, and no other way to distinguish blockquote from normal text). With a left margin, that would distinctly offset the blockquotes from the normal text.
Meh, maybe I am just going insane, and doing everything all wrong. That could always be possible. |
Hmmm...what I mean is, if you have something that is a blockquote, in the Word file, BEFORE you process it out to ePUB, simply create a named style called "Blockquote." You can set the indents, etc., as you will--the naming is the important part. When you export the ePUB, using Tox's mighty ePUBTools, retain the named styles. When you have your ePUB, simply name your blockquote style the same as you have it named in the Word file, (or, for expediency, name the style that way in the Word file in the first place), or regex the Word file so that your blockquote style has the same name as your CSS file.
I guess I should have started by asking: are you exporting your own named styles, from the Word file, with the ePUB, using ePT?
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