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Originally Posted by Paula-59
debeck: thank you for outlining the steps for working within Calibri from the start -- 
Just want to confirm something: if I were to bring a the book in as a txt file, it would have NO formatting, right? |
Markdown has its own way of applying formatting, via things like **bold** and _italics_ (depending on which dialect you use, it's the double asterisk or the switch to underscore that matters).
It would involve using a different workflow, and converting from markdown into HTML.
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Part of the process I went through before importing into Calibri involved moving the text from a writing program to LibreOffice, where I was able to wrap italicized text with <i> tags, replacing -- with mdashes, etc. before bringing it into BBEdit. That way I didn't have to scroll through the whole book adding italics, etc.
I BBEdit I wrapped all the paragraphs in para tags, replaced punctuation marks with named entities, removed extra spaces, etc. and did my styling.
Is there a good search and replace function in Calibri's html editor?
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calibre has an excellent S&R (based on the
enhanced regex module), which also has a function-replace mode that calls custom user-created python functions to generate the replacement text.
You can also use snippets etc. to wrap specified text in <i> tags, rather than importing into LibreOffice just for that.
Where does the text start out -- what is your writing program?