docx to epub - obsolete classes for italic and bold

[krbo]

If we have following sentence in docx:

This is a small test for obsolete classes.

Calibre will always generate < i > and < b > tags plus additional classes with "italic" and "bold" properties.

Line will look like this:

<p class="calibre1">This is a <i class="calibre2">small</i> <b class="calibre3">test</b> for obsolete classes</p>

and obsolete classes:

.calibre2 {
font-style: italic;
line-height: 1.2
}
.calibre3 {
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 1.2
}


Not sure is this a bug or a feature?

[BetterRed]

FWIW - I agree it would be better if the redundant classes didn't exist, but it's simple enough to get rid of them with an editor.

And if getting rid of them were to create a problem, then it should be simple enough to restore previous version - eg reconvert the docx.

There may be 'special' cases where they're necessary.

BR

[krbo]

I've put this as a bug report on Calibre's bug tracker.

Kovid invalidate it stating that "all formatting must be done in CSS".

It's OK but then it leaves <i> and <b> tags as redundant.
(must admit tthat they look much nicer then dreaded <span>, only reason I've found to keep them)

So yes, Find&Replace will be continued as I prefer cleaner HTML more then extra class just for italic (sometimes I remove more then 500 of them from text).