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Originally Posted by Doitsu
2. Your HTML code contains inline styles and your stylesheets contain MS Word specific attributes, which can cause all kinds of problems. You might want to rethink your workflow. For example, you could use Toxaris's MS Word Add-in or save your book as a .docx file and convert it to an epub file with Calibre. |
I second this. This is the best dang tool out there for DOCX->EPUB. Strips out the cruft, and leaves you with very minimal/clean HTML+CSS. If you've used Word Styles, your classes should carry over as well.
Side Note: blackrock36, you did mention this is a Non-Fiction book. One bug with Toxaris's EPUB Tools is that italics in actual Word footnotes doesn't carry over (this will be fixed in the next major EPUB Tools update). So depending on how extensive your formatting in footnotes is, you may have to do use another tool/method.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
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.
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If this was true:
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Originally Posted by blackrock36
The document started life as a .doc and was saved as an .HTML to import in Sigil.
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... that it was originally a DOC, there could've been a ton of hidden Word cruft all over the place.
I can easily imagine some mso-styled mess, especially if copying/pasting from different documents, the internet, Word on Mac<->Windows, etc. etc. And you know how notorious WYSIWYG editors are for hiding lots of nasties under the surface.
