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Originally Posted by Turtle91
This was a big shock to me as my "cleaning up" process is mostly removing all the "Calibre-isms" (among other author-induced code bloat).
Might I ask what benefit is gained by taking a fully compliant ePub from Sigil and running it through an ePub->ePub conversion in Calibre?  |
for me - its that the CSS is then in a form that I am used to seeing, sorted & simplified. i know that the main book style will be called calibre and that the text body styles will be numbered and sorted.... the dropcaps style(s) [ which I usually remove] will be called dropcaps and not opening_charater_of_1st_line or some such nonsense
some books have what looks like a bloated, put in everything and the kitchen sink sort of css and for what I typically want to do : tweak line heights, line spacing, text margins, the calibre-ised one is easier to work with.
or at the opposite stream there may be bare <p> styles with no class. calibre will insert a class for me which I can then tweak
also calibre adds in my preferred extra css which saves me going it manually ; thats for justification, hyphenation, widows, orphans, and it standardises page margins
and it creates an original format fallback position, which I can restore from if I then proceed to mess up an edit. that gets removed only when I am fully satisfied so seeing both formats in the library signals to me that I have a tweak in progress or about to start.