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Originally Posted by Jaws
This appears in some KFX books (and, as far as I've been able to determine, only KFX books) converted to epub.
Sometimes word/phrase formatting — such as a word appearing in italics, "<i>Ibid.</i>" — is hardcoded:
and sometimes the conversion results in a style that is the format variation only, included in both the stylesheet and appearing in the text as:
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<span style="class_s47">Ibid.</span>
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I do not understand how you could be seeing "<i>Ibid.</i>" in an EPUB generated by this plugin.
KFX format has no direct equivalent to the <i> HTML element. When books are converted to KFX any <i> is replaced by the KFX equivalent to a span with CSS styling of "font-style: italic". The KFX Input plugin retains this formatting when converting to EPUB. It never produces <i> elements.
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Originally Posted by Jaws
This can result in some bizarre display glitches, but I'm more puzzled that they're unpredictable. The difference can appear in volume 2, but not volumes 1 or 3, of the same series from the same publisher released as e-books in the same month. I've seen this across multiple publishers. The only predictability is that they're consistent across the KFX (that is, it would be every appearance of italics in a given KFX source — or none of them).
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What do you mean by bizarre display glitches?
Can you provide the titles (and ASINs) of books that demonstrate this?
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Originally Posted by Jaws
Please confirm whether this is something internal to KFX's conversion routines, something that's slightly broader in Calibre's conversion routines, or something that's in the source files (such as different people doing the conversions at the publishers doing something different in InDesign or Word resulting in slightly different output code — which can/does happen). If you can, that is... and this is far from urgent. Just bizarre.
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I do not understand what is happening here. It is possible that calibre's conversion process is making changes to the EPUB produced by KFX Input. For example there is a calibre conversion option to italicize common words and patterns. That could be coming into play if you have it enabled under heuristic processing.
One thing you could try to do is use the "From KFX" function built into this plugin to bypass the effects of calibre conversion. See the first post in this thread for more information.