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Old 01-25-2013, 07:44 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Lenora View Post
Additionally, I used a character style to apply italic formatting but the italic shows up in a very small pt. size in the ePub file.
The best practice in this case is to change the export tagging section in your character style to reflect the correct tag in question: "em" for italics and "strong" for bold. You should do the same for superscript (sup) and subscript (sub). This will make your code more semantic, which is considered by many a good thing.

If you leave it at "Automatic", Indesign will pick the Character Style name and insert it as a class name in a generic "span" tag.

Don't insert nothing in the "class" field if you just want to mark the text as italic or bold in the code.

Check these examples:

Character style settings: http://cl.ly/image/0a0P1i0t2D42
Exported code: http://cl.ly/image/24113O1a2u2m

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Should I resign myself to fixing these glitches using something like Calibre or Sigil? Or will I need to fiddle with the CSS code?
You'll probably have to deal with code very often.
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