Headings Convert as List Items from Writer

[retiredbiker]

Ubuntu 20.04, LibreOffice 7.5, Calibre 6.10
For years, whenever I try the "Last save as docx" in LO Writer, any heading styles come across as table items. I've spent way too many hours and never solved it. So now with Writer 7.5, thought I'd try again. I removed every trace of LO I could find and did a clean install or 7.5 from the .debs. No dice...

I made a tiny doc with two Heading 1 "chapters". As before, The Heading styles have to be in the Chapter Numbering list to act as headings in Writer: see attached pics. (I can't figure out how to get the images between paragraphs of text...)

Now in 7.5, there is a toolbar icon that will tell a style to be "No List", and that works, but only for one header instance at a time. The header style is fixed as "chapter numbering" and can't be changed by editing the style.


So converting my test book with one heading normal and one with the "no list" applied, I get the normal heading as a table and the other as a simple h1, which is what I want. The css that makes it a table item is this:

.calibre1 {
display: table;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.block_1 {
display: table-row;
font-size: 18pt;
line-height: 1.2;
page-break-after: avoid;
text-align: center;
margin: 28.4pt 0;
padding: 0;
}


If anyone can tell me how to avoid this table thing, it would be great, because the conversion from .odt is not nearly as good as from docx. Is there any way to make ALL the headings act as the "no list" one? It seems to work for everybody else! Also attached are the .docx file and the resulting epub. Many Thanks in advance.

[Badas]

The best way is to change List Item to Text in docx. In Word I am using small macros:

Sub ListToText
Dim iCount As Integer, iParaCount As Integer, iListParaCount As Integer
Dim lp As Paragraph
iParaCount = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs.Count
iListParaCount = ActiveDocument.ListParagraphs.Count
For Each lp In ActiveDocument.ListParagraphs
lp.Range.ListFormat.ConvertNumbersToText
iCount = iCount + 1
Next lp
MsgBox "Para count is" & iParaCount & vbCr _
& " List Para is " & iListParaCount & vbCr _
& " Changed " & iCount & " Para Lists."
End Sub

But this is in World. How in LO... I dont know.

[Quoth]

see next

[Quoth]

Make sure the Heading paragraph style in Writer has no list property, only heading level, and only for headings you want in TOC.

Edit only odt, but do an extra Save as docx. Only add docx to Calibre. Never edit a "Save As" docx from Writer in Writer as it reconverts it!

I'm on 6.4.7.2 on main PC, though I have newer version somewhere else, and I don't get headings as list. I guess you are ading an odt to Calibre, which doesn't work so well.

[retiredbiker]

Originally Posted by Quoth

1) Make sure the Heading paragraph style in Writer has no list property, only heading level, and only for headings you want in TOC.

2) Edit only odt, but do an extra Save as docx. Only add docx to Calibre. Never edit a "Save As" docx from Writer in Writer as it reconverts it!

3) I'm on 6.4.7.2 on main PC, though I have newer version somewhere else, and I don't get headings as list. I guess you are ading an odt to Calibre, which doesn't work so well.

The mystery is, why don't all you guys have the same trouble with Writer? Got to be some simple root cause, like I've made some silly setting somewhere.

1) Exactly what I would like to do! 7.5 gives me a tool to do that, but one-by-one heading instance (Image in OP). Can't change the Heading style by editing the style. This is not only 7.5--for me it goes back many versions.

2) That is my goal.

3) Yes, I'm converting odt files. With the heading thing not working, it is no worse than doing the docx conversion: a few extra spans to get rid of, versus the table/list headings.

I can simply use some non-heading paragraph style, but then I have no reasonable navigation in Writer, since Navigator works on headings.

Just before sending to Calibre, I can do a search and replace in Writer to change the heading to some other paragraph style, but that's getting crazy complicated.

[BetterRed]

Why are you outline numbering your heading styles?

I ask because they're a pain to get rid of in Word.

BR

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by retiredbiker

The mystery is, why don't all you guys have the same trouble with Writer? Got to be some simple root cause, like I've made some silly setting somewhere.

3) Yes, I'm converting odt files. With the heading thing not working, it is no worse than doing the docx conversion: a few extra spans to get rid of, versus the table/list headings.

No, don't use ODT with Calibre, I understood Kovid to write it's not going to be improved. EDIT only odt, but an extra Save As in DOCX purely for Calibre (or other MS Word users) (Don't edit and save in Writer or the conversions will mess up or even in older versions of MS Word that had a docx upgrade).

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Why are you outline numbering your heading styles?

I ask because they're a pain to get rid of in Word.

BR

I think it's a bug. You get can headings as List items (possible to avoid numbers) if you import odt direct to Calibre. Doing Save As in docx and then import docx to Calibre is fine, as long as you never edit the docx in Writer.

[retiredbiker]

Originally Posted by Quoth

I think it's a bug. You get can headings as List items (possible to avoid numbers) if you import odt direct to Calibre. Doing Save As in docx and then import docx to Calibre is fine, as long as you never edit the docx in Writer.

Well, for me just the opposite, heading work fine in odt, mess up in that last save as docx. I give up!