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Originally Posted by Hitch
What concerns me a bit is you SEEM to be trying to do everything in a WYSIWYG manner. Are you? You didn't know what the line-spacing issue was, which says to me that you're trying to do this in bookview, or something similar. That's NOT going to work.
If you have a novel in INDD, maybe, maybe, you can get to an ePUB/MOBI in a WYSIWYG manner, kinda. But not non-fiction. And not with the results you're getting, in which EVERY line is a new paragraph. Do you see what I'm saying?
Of course the file has to have "everything" in order to work. That's why you have them give you the INDD package files, not simply the .indd file itself.
If you're going to go around it this way, you may as well export the INDD to faux-Word, "story by story" instead of the entire file, and then make an ebook from Word. Unless you're doing hidden work here, that we're not seeing, I worry a bit about the output you're generating.
Hitch
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Yes, I get your point. I actually have the full indd package. The problem is on the declaration of styles. Each new chapter has a new style, instead of defining few reusable ones, and other problems I am having with this type of packages I have.
Right now I am doing a manual deletion of the new lines which are actually new paragraphs. I do that right now manual, since I tried to delete them using regular expressions on the code view, and I encountered a bug in Sigil that the text did not overflow at the end of the margin and continued to the right. Checked the code and it was fine, so it was a Sigil bug apparently.
Anyways, I don't always use WYSIWYG approach, but most of the time yes. I think that my best bet right now is either to work on fixing the indd (medium term) and continue to do the manual work via doc files or PDF editors. My pain points are new paragraph instead of new line and keeping italics from my copy/paste. So, thanks to all your comments I have a quick and dirty solution, and as I realize there is no best way to solve it, then I have to work with the people that creates the indd package and lets see if eventually I have a working file that does not mean more time to convert than my manual work that I'm doing for now.
Thanks again for your comments
