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Old 05-08-2021, 10:14 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
I've had another go at this and I've managed to keep the italics and cleaned up the code very much.

It was a lot easier the second time now that I knew what to look for. And it even took less time.
And? Would you be able to list a few steps on how you did it?

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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
I seem to remember this at least...hell, 7-8 years back? I think it existed with the old Typekit subscriptions, too. And Pages (the Mac word processor) has had this same exact issue for dog's years. We used to get a lotta lotta work from Pages users, between that white background cruft and the MIA italics. It's gotten better, but the Case of the Missing Italics still plagues them.
Thanks for the info.

And I haven't had the "pleasure" of working with anything from Pages yet.

I usually noticed missing italics further along in the process after too aggressive initial cleanup steps. Nowadays, it's one of the first things I look for.

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I know, right? Google is a damned internet company. You'd think that they could focus on the underlying HTML, right? But noooooooooooooo, they're thinking about how they can be like Apple and make everything drag-drop and easy-peasy. Ugh.
A while back, I came up with a "markdown" -> LibreOffice -> Google Docs workflow, so I could mass convert my changelogs.

(See the ~steps in my Reddit answers from 7 months ago: /r/LibreOffice: "How do I replace formatting tags surrounding text with that text formated?".)

But the annoying step then became Styles within Google Docs.

If I made any sort of adjustments, the super clean Styles I applied in the LibreOffice step became botched.

Side Note: And has everyone seen, LibreOffice 7.1 introduced a new "Style Inspector":

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/...tyle_inspector

It allows you to easily spot direct formatting + what's being applied where (similar to Inspect Code in your browser).

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