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Old 05-28-2024, 06:06 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by Crescendo63 View Post
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.
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 it’s ’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.
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