@theducks: Unless I'm missing something with Diap's Toolbag, it can only change all the stuff on a given page (EDIT: sorry, the current HTML file) or all the stuff in the whole book (all the files). I just need to remove those tags from specific clumps of text on a page.
@Karellen: Usually, I've no problem with things like <i>, <em>, <b> and <strong> in the HTML. But, where there are clumps of text that should be treated as a syntactic whole (i.e., a quote at the top of a chapter, a poem, a letter, etc.), I'd like to apply a CSS class to handle the formatting. It's possible the styling embedded in the content will conflict with that present in the class.
If the <i> tags were only around small bits of text like ship names or foreign words, that's probably not a problem. I think I could use another class to override their italics to something like bold:
Code:
i i {
font-style: normal;
font-weight: bold;
}
But, if I included something like that where large swaths of text are italicized, all I'd end up with is large swaths of text bolded.