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Originally Posted by Crescendo63
Ah, I didn't know that. Although numbered and bulleted lists are part of HTML code, so I thought a converter would just translate the Word attribute with the corresponding HTML code.
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But ebooks are a subset of the HTML and CSS that works on a web site. Certainly even when auto numbered lists do work, they can only start at 1, i, I, a A etc. In Word/LO you might have an aside / comment or whatever in a paragraph after the third list item and start the the next list at 4, iv, IV, d, D etc, and that works on PDF and maybe some web browsers. It won't work on most ereaders.
It's only a typing convenience like typing ' or " and getting and or and, but even that goes wrong with '90s (gives 90s and its 90s) feet, inches, minutes, seconds give 4 6 instead of 4′ 6″ (subtle use prime and double prime, not closing quotes). Now that I'm used to not have auto-list (for nearly 10 years), I don't miss it. I edited my keyboard on Windows so that alt-gr did more than แ้ํ๓๚ etc, but now I use Linux and alt-gr v b V B gives for when auto "smart quotes" fail. Also Caps-Lock is now compose and I added Greek, prime, double prime and minus to it.
The only thing I'd like extra is custom paragraph style names with levels (i.e. not body text) recognised as I never use Heading1, Heading2 etc, but I added h1, h2, h3 to the "Edit Spans & Divs" tool and simply use it to swap any <p id= and matching </p> to h2 or whatever with original properties. Calibre ignores the heading level and puts all customed named headings as <p, i.e. body.
I'd like LO and Word to have more CSS orientated image properties, but I'm not using many images so I check the CSS. Most are changed to auto for height and a percent for width.