[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by bobbibo

using cleanhtml in order to clean up a word document having footnotes, before moving it into Sigil.

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Of course, this does not work in the resulting epub.
The original doc has over 100 footnotes, so manual adjustment is just not do-able!

Do not use that crappy website. It's awful.

If you want an easy DOCX->EPUB conversion, just use Calibre to convert.

You can then do your cleanup from there.

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But ultimately, the single largest thing in Word is learn how to use Styles.

I linked to a few videos/resources on the topic in this post:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...55#post3848055

Once you create your DOCX with Styles, your resulting code will be SO much cleaner in any workflows. You could then even use Save As > Clean HTML from Word and finagle that using Sigil or Calibre's Editor.

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And it's best to keep your final Footnote code very simple:

This would go in your text:

<p>This is an example sentence.<a href="#fn1" id="ft1">[1]</a></p>

And this would go at the bottom of your file:

<p><a href="#ft1" id="fn1">[1]</a> This is a footnote.</p>

Note: Also, in ebooks, brackets are recommended over superscripts because it's easier to click, easier to read, and doesn't mess with line-heights.

Originally Posted by Doitsu

You'll usually get better results, if you save MS Word documents as a .docx files and convert them to .epub files with Calibre.

Agreed.

There are also plenty of other tools to help you convert cleanly:

1. If you have Microsoft Word, Toxaris's EPUBTools is a recommended addon:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=213372

This gives you extremely clean code.

(Note: It currently has a bug with italics disappearing in footnotes. Next version will fix this.)

2. If you're using Sigil, DiapDealer created a Sigil plugin: DOCXImport.