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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
As an experiment, I recently tried formatting an ebook as an EPUB (the original source was OpenDocument Text). First, I tried doing it within LibreOffice (it has a "save as EPUB" option) and the results were not very good. Among the issues: It would put a line break between an upper case letter and the rest of the word, would not center items that were centered in the original text (they were formatted with styles), would display horizontal lines I was using as a change of scene marker, and allowed widows and orphans within the ebook. I then tried converting a PDF to EPUB with in Calibre and the results were even worse (as as having double spaced lines which were not in the original).
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An extra Save As docx from LO Writer. Do not open the docx again in LO, only edit the ODT. Make sure only one page style and dimensions are pt, not cm or inches (no em option). No direct formatting. Only styles. Ensure document language is correct.
If a custom name is used for headings other than Heading1 etc, then Calibre will use a <p tag, but they will be differentiated by the style -> CSS, so easy to change to <h
Don't use horizontal lines as a scene marker use a paragraph style (optionally with dinkus text or graphic). The CSS later will be obvious and a 20% <hr class="short-break" /> can be substituted if desired.
Also use a suitable style for first paragraphs after chapter heading, scene breaks et.
Don't use lists, but style a paragraph to look like one and a manually letter/number/bullet (due to ereader lists are limited)
No empty lines, no tabs, no frames (but a paragraph can have an outline in style), no columns, only one space ever. Use styles.