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Originally Posted by lizarddreaming
Okay, wrote a very long reply and the system logged me out while writing it.
The gist being that pasting into Book View and pasting into PageEdit is NOT the same.
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And 363 pages are crammed into one giant block closed out with a paragraph tag (and a styles list code at the end).
As to Styles in Word, the author writes on Pages, sends to me, I put it into Word and format for the print version, then after proof, I dump into Sigil. He doesn't know Styles (because he uses Pages) and I hate Word, so I don't know Styles either. I'll have to look into it, after this book, if it would help.
I will try some of the suggested plugins. Because even if I were to stick with 9.14, I still need a good way to not have to re-add the formatting because that sucks a lot.
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions and responses!
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Firstly--as others have already mentioned, of course, Pages has Styles and Headings. Every,
every, word processor in the universe has them, under various names. I can tell you, though, that it's unlikely that your client will ever learn them. Not one out of 100 of our clients ever bothers, even though it would save them countless hours.
Secondly--if you're cleaning up the file in Word and, presumably, using Styles and headings in so doing, why aren't you simply exporting the file as filtered HTML and then putting it into Sigil? Rather than pasting plain text and having to add in italics, bold, etc.? That's...well.
If you use Styles and Headings, the HTML output file will be squeaky clean. If your output file
isn't squeaky clean, you should--as a commercial formatter--be cleaning it,
before putting it into Sigil (or when it's in Sigil) so that the crap coding doesn't cause problems in the book, right?
(I just read--you
don't know Styles? How on earth are you working with CSS, if you don't? They're the same exact thing! If you're not using Styles, to format this guy's print and eBooks, how the hell ARE you doing this work????)
So, if you don't know how to use Sigil to do that, and you don't know how to use Word's built-in Styles and Headings (which are actually Word's superpower, and if you're not using them, you're wasting a crapload of your time), then clean the exported HTML file in a text editor that works on your Mac, and then dump it into Sigil.
Presumably, you're
not simply pasting crap Word code into Sigil and then splitting chapters and calling it an ePUB, so, the easy way is to simply export the STYLED Word doc into HTML and then put that into Sigil. It's the right way to be working on ePUBs, anyway, if you're not already doing that. I guess you're what, creating a Stylesheet, post-facto and assigning the paragraph styles, etc., manually? Geeeze, that's the long way around...
And while Toxaris' plugin is for Windows only, unfortunately, there are other ways of cleaning HTML auto-magically if you're not doing it yourself. I mean... a long, long time ago, I did a book the way you're saying, having to manually add all those italics back, and I swore I'd certainly never do THAT again! That way lies madness.
Hitch