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Originally Posted by theducks
Your plan is flawed because HOW publishers (minions) code always needs to be considered on a book, by book basis. Because the same Publisher uses different minions. Some of those do not have a clue on how to use the 'house' stylesheet. They find the first style for a 'look' and use it throughout the book instead of using .preface for the Preface, .fm for front matter 
I've seen p tags styled with .758em, 18pt , giant line-space (not 1.2).
Calibre conversions go for results (scale), not the cleanest of code. This is why a lot of us prefer edits vs same fmt Conversions.
Why the push to fully automate, when you can't read more than 1 book at a time  |
Sometimes when you remove all of the unused CSS styles, you are left with a smallish amount of styles. That then makes it easy to edit. I go through the styes and removes things like left justify, line-height, and anything else I don't want. The thing is, by editing instead of converting, you learn how these publishers do things. It becomes easier to edit and you learn more.
I say go for editing. Converting is not a good idea unless you have to and in this case, you don't have to.