conversion RTF to EPUB problem; small fonts

[tscamera]

hi there,
it' a miracle:

let's say, i do have a word .doc saved as .rtf with:
20pt, 18pt, 16pt headers,
text body is 14pt,
and some lines as notes, numbers etcpp
in 8pt
ALL defined by ms-word-styles.

the epub-output shows
correct TOC and formating for the headers,
text-body is OK too.

BUT the 8pts have the same size as the text-body...
<p class="calibre2"><span class="none">

the miracle is:
any 8pt-word in the 14pt-text body
or
any 8pt line ...
i styled by hand, is recognized and shown correctly in the epub!

i could do a RegEx-workaround with SIGIL,
but it doesn't explain why the calibre-converter doesn't recognize the small font in lines defined by styles.

[Dopedangel]

have you ticked option disable font size rescaling

[tscamera]

now i did!

and got the same stylesheet.css, and the same .html as before.

but now the font-size sometimes is shown as pt instead of em before.
there is the same class (.none4) wich take place for words and sentences
i styled as smaller (8pt) on purpose. and only for them.

i mean, it's all the same. just the size relation changed a bit.
my 8pt sentences, who got their style from ms-word-styles are still in in 14pt.

[kovidgoyal]

See here for the best way to convert Word documents:

http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual...word-documents

[tscamera]

thanks a lot for being patient.
as a newbee i'am a little bit slow in mind, sometimes!

your hint helped a lot.

but 'll stay with rtf conversion, simpler code, quicker conversion, quicker access to the rtf-file in case of needed corrections...
i've learned to tweak the code with sigil, playing around with the classes...
juggling with regex...

now, everything's fine!

[kovidgoyal]

you're welcome Glad you got it working.

[tscamera]

after converting from .rtf and exploding the .epub i found:

a very tiny toc.ncx, no wonder why there is nearly no ToC in Calibre-viewer.

BUT...

after opening in SIGIL, there is a complete ToC... suspicious.
that means, the SIGIL HTMLtidy has done the job?
yes!

and no?
looking in the exploded .epub shows: the html-code is correct, heading-tags are set, but just... the toc.ncx isn't.
shure, after saving with SIGIL the new toc.ncx is saved too.
the Calibre viewer will show.

am i right?
please, kovidgoyal, have a look! it's a lot of juggling.

....
so, my very first statement isn't correct in all details.

by the way, shall i open a new thread for this, or/and post it in the calibre forum too?

[kovidgoyal]

see http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual...le-of-contents

[tscamera]

it seems that you're waiting to answer (silly) questions, ya so quick!

ok, ok, i'm a self taught/autodidact. ever was.
i'm a dropout (from university) several times, different majors.
too lame, no quick responses to my questions, to many manuals.

but i understand... rtfm. (read the fucking manual)
i like trial and error, and serendipity.

i hope i don't bother,
there are a lot of ways to Rome.

thanks.

[tscamera]

yes, i did rtfm.

"You can have it insert a ruled line instead of, or in addition to the page break." ...
if i choose both or ruled line, what does the ruled line means?

if i put in (where?) a ruled line, would match my very first question.
a specific line every chapterbreak, GREAT!

Hannibal ad Ebro.