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Yes, Hitch I was asking, thanks for the insight.
How much time do you spend, and what tools do you use to import or convert content?
We find import and conversion to be very problematic and time consuming. We have used various tools such as PanDoc, Writer2Xhtml, Calibre, etc. Lately many of us have just given up and simply cut and paste the content (as text) into Sigil (in Book View) and then quickly apply formatting. The original content is open in one window in the originating application (LO, Word, Google Docs or whatever) and Sigil is in another window, both side by side. We cut and paste, apply formatting, compare and make small changes one chapter at a time. This may seem tedious but it actually is faster and more reliable than using a conversion program most of the time.
Using conversion tools such as Pandocs, Writer2Xhtml or Calibre sometimes works good with some content, but other times results in missing content or mangled content. Conversion with these tools is not always reliable. Some source documents were originated in Word, LO or Google Docs, opened in Word or LO and then imported back to LO or Word. There are levels upon levels of tag soup in most of these files.
Cutting and Pasting into Book View as text results in totally scrubbed and cleaned files. Re-applying any lost formating is pedestrian compared to sorting out the tag soup.
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