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icearch · 01-08-2026, 10:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ableal

People are extremely resistant to instruction

(but no one has the nerve to say they can´t handle a Word document), and Calibre provides an epub-to-docx conversion ... if the round-trip is acceptable, it may save you trouble.

I tried some style defult in MSword, but Calibre convert it in to something really messy.

Final result see attachment.

html:

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css:

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Code:

.block_ {
  color: #2E74B5;
  display: block;
  font-family: "等线 Light", serif;
  font-size: 2em;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 1.2;
  page-break-after: avoid;
  page-break-inside: avoid;
  text-align: justify;
  margin: 24pt 0 4pt;
  padding: 0;
}
.block_1 {
  display: block;
  font-family: serif;
  font-size: 1em;
  text-align: justify;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
.block_2 {
  color: #2E74B5;
  display: block;
  font-family: "等线 Light", serif;
  font-size: 1.66667em;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 1.2;
  page-break-after: avoid;
  page-break-inside: avoid;
  text-align: justify;
  margin: 8pt 0 4pt;
  padding: 0;
}
.block_3 {
  display: block;
  font-family: "等线 Light", serif;
  font-size: 2em;
  letter-spacing: -0.5pt;
  line-height: 1.2;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0 0 4pt;
  padding: 0;
}
.block_4 {
  color: #595959;
  display: block;
  font-family: "等线 Light", serif;
  font-size: 1.41667em;
  letter-spacing: 0.75pt;
  line-height: 1.2;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0 0 8pt;
  padding: 0;
}
.block_5 {
  display: block;
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: bold;
  letter-spacing: 0.25pt;
  text-align: justify;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
.block_6 {
  display: block;
  text-align: justify;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
.block_7 {
  display: block;
  text-align: justify;
  margin: 0 0 0 36pt;
  padding: 0;
}
.block_8 {
  color: #404040;
  display: block;
  font-style: italic;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 8pt 0;
  padding: 0;
}
.block_9 {
  color: #404040;
  display: block;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 8pt 0;
  padding: 0;
}
.block_10 {
  color: #404040;
  display: block;
  font-style: italic;
  text-align: justify;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
.block_11 {
  display: block;
  font-style: italic;
  text-align: justify;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
.block_12 {
  color: #2E74B5;
  display: block;
  font-style: italic;
  text-align: justify;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
.block_13 {
  display: block;
  font-weight: bold;
  text-align: justify;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
.block_14 {
  color: #2E74B5;
  display: block;
  font-style: italic;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 18pt 43.2pt;
  padding: 10pt 0;
  border-top: #2E74B5 solid 1pt;
  border-bottom: #2E74B5 solid 1pt;
}
.block_15 {
  color: #5A5A5A;
  display: block;
  font-variant: small-caps;
  text-align: justify;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
.block_16 {
  color: #2E74B5;
  display: block;
  font-variant: small-caps;
  font-weight: bold;
  letter-spacing: 0.25pt;
  text-align: justify;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
.calibre {
  display: block;
  font-family: "DengXian", serif;
  font-size: 1em;
  padding-left: 0;
  padding-right: 0;
  margin: 0 5pt;
}
.calibre1 {
  font-style: italic;
}
.calibre2 {
  white-space: pre-wrap;
}

I have no idea what's going on here. Maybe beacuse the defult style in MSword is too fancy and messy, or maybe it's because something wrong in conversion that need to be addressed in Calibre?