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Originally Posted by blackrock36
Hitch,
I based the original document format on the Smashwords style guide where all extraneous formatting in Word is recommended to be removed and the 4 or 5 dedicated styles used were made in Word for quotes, bullet points and the Word defaults were ignored. So the original book document, of which the reproduced text is a sample chapter from the book accurately reflects the Word output including the styles I created as I am familiar with Word. I can assure you that at over 400 A4 pages, I put in a lot of work on formatting the Word document as required with no added stuff so it would render as well as possible. For the book, the Smashwords online reader reproduces the book exactly as formatted as looks great but their epub rendering does not.
However, it seems that I have not learnt enough and I can see from your own and others helpful comments that I still have some way to go on this! I will retry Calibre using a docx format straight to epub and check it out and perhaps acknowledge that I have to educate myself on html too. I also write quiz books under a pseudonym so this whole process will serve me well into the future.
Cheers,
Andy
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Andy:
Sorry, didn't mean to be overly negative about your book. Honest to crap, I'm damned if I can figure out how the hell you got all that cruft in the book, if you were following the Smashwords "style guide." I mean, don't get me wrong, I believe you, but most of that *&^%$ should have been nuked.
Did you remove all the styling, first, end-to-end, before you did the new styling? Using remove all, or any such sort of thing? (Anyone of you guys have an idea, how the hell he got that CSS in there? I mean, following Mark's Guide?)
I see that someone recommended Toxaris' plugin and that really is a wonderful, wonderful tool.
Hitch