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Originally Posted by roger64
What happens seems to be that Word 2013 uses its own styles for titles and notes because they have the same names as my odt styles. He does not touch the other user odt styles whose names are missing in its own template.
So if I am right, if I renamed in the odt file "Titre 2" as "My_Titre_2", maybe he would leave it untouched.... But this could give problems in the EPUB, for example for TOC creation.
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But...why wouldn't you just create a template, in which you modify those styles, then? You're not stuck with them, as-is.
So, what I'm saying is, if you have a heading class, which you call Title 2 (Titre), why not just modify the Heading (or Title) 2 class, in a saved template?
Obviously, when I'm mapping styles from Word-->INDD-->ePUB, I don't sit around and hunt for Word-named styles that match what I want; I just take the usuals, primarily, and I modify them so that they do what I want.
Back to our example: so you use a heading2 class, for (say) chapter titles. In ODT, call it Heading2. In Word, it's Heading 2. So far, so good.
In ODT, you wanted it to be (say), Garamond 18pt, centered. Fine. In the new Word template, just modify the Heading 2 class to be Garamond 18pt centered. If you create a template intake file--then, you only have to do this once.
(FYI: if this were me, I would NOT be using dedicated names. I don't, usually, anyway; I'd just create new heading classes, e.g., "Chapter" "Author" and so forth, as HEADING styles, if you are concerned about being able to use h1-2-3 styles to autocreate a TOC. There's really no good reason to use
reserved names that are already used by Word for specific things, like "comments.")
Something I learned a long time ago, with people is, it's daft to play to their weak hands, and then get annoyed if they don't do what you want or live up to your expectations, right? Same with software. One of the things that Word does really well is work with Styles, and it gives you damn-near total control over your (eventual) CSS. So, hell, play to Word's built-in strength--manipulating Styles.
If you set up a template file, you should, I'd think, be able to map styles as you see fit. While it's bloody
tedious to do this for the first time, with a comprehensive ePUB/CSS, man....it's a
gorgeous time-saver once you get it going.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Hitch