Chapter Titles as <ol> Styles in docx-->epub Conversion

[retiredbiker]

System: Calibre 5.10.1, Ubuntu 20.04, LibreOffice 7.0.4.2

I've seen many suggestions to the effect that, if using Writer, a save as docx instead of odt before conversion to epub will give better results, so I have begun trying it. Yes, in general, there are no weird <span>s and so on.

But I find chapter titles, which were all plain "Heading 1" in Writer, come through as list styles. Example:

<ol class="list_">
    <li value="3" class="block_4" id="toc_id_3"><b class="calibre1">Chapter 3</b></li>
  </ol>

Is this normal? It seems a strange way to code chapter titles. And it makes it slightly more difficult to edit into the <h1 class="chapter"> sort of style I normally use. (Doesn't happen with odt conversion.)

Is there some way to avoid this behaviour?

Thanks...

[BetterRed]

It is not normal for me.

Using Word: for Chapter One¶ styled as Heading 1, I get:

<h1 class="block_6" id="toc_id_1">Chapter One</h1>

Which equates to what you're expecting. I would check the specs of the Heading 1 style in Writer, and/or see what happens with the default template.

[kovidgoyal]

If you use auto-numbering for headings then they become lists.

[retiredbiker]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

If you use auto-numbering for headings then they become lists.

That makes perfect sense.

Neither the odt nor the saved docx H1 styles seem to have any numbering turned on, but there is a message in outline level that it is turned off if I use a paragraph style for chapter numbering; same in both versions. (How does it know that? the word "Chapter"? With every update, Writer gets more "helpful", like Word. Darn!)

So this is something Writer is doing, not Calibre. I'll hunt it up there.

Thank you!