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Originally Posted by bookman156
Any idea why a big publisher might use spans for italic? I am trying not to think of them as incompetent, despite the fact that my proofreading errors sheet runs to 22 pages so far without even considering the coding.
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Seems no one has answered this question, at least directly, so I'll give you my reasons.
In some cases, I create epubs via export from InDesign CS4, which implements character styles with spans. It loves spans so much it even wraps all paragraphs in a "generic span" that has a null definition in the stylesheet, just in case you want to define them later (I suppose). IIRC, later versions of ID will let the user define the HTML used to implement a given style.
In other cases, I create the epub from a (Word .doc, .rtf, etc.) -> LibreOffice .odt
via a "Writer2latex" javascript tool. In this case I can define the CSS that corresponds to each LibreOffice paragraph or character style, and I do so in such a way as to make it consistent with the ID4 CSS, just to make my life easier.
In either case, the epubs so obtained require considerable tweaking in Sigil, and I like my saved clips and S/R's to be applicable to epubs from either source, to the extent possible.
If this constitutes incompetence, so be it
Albert