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If you managed to reproduce them, I can't imagine how you did it. I would post the result here, but I rebooted my computer yesterday and it's gone. |
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NJ, yes Sigil's Prettify fixes the superfluous spacing and line feeds, but what a shame that it should be necessary to do that. Someone who is doing their editing in a text editor *rather than Sigil* is going to have a rough road with Search and Replace if line feed and/or spaces fall in the middle of the phrase they are searching for.
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Depending on the formatting of the eBook, it might be easier to save as text from Word and apply the styles manually in the ePub.
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I mean, think about it. Otherwise, you're saying that your source files are all garbage? I suspect not. I mean, I am gobsmacked that those lf codes came through, on an allegedly "cleaned" file. My entire point, NJ, is that you might want to run some tests, with files OTHER than your own, to see if that site actually does ANYTHING. Given that you recommend it far and wide????? I'm not criticizing you; I'm saying, this is an opportunity for you to revisit your recommendation. Hitch |
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01-21-2018, 06:44 PM | #37 | |
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And to recapitulate: I write in WordStar, open in Word for tweaking, and save to *.docx. I don't use Styles at all. For me, Word is just a virtual typewriter whose only virtue is that it can do curly quotes and em dashes, and is accepted by other softwares and by my editor. The closest thing to a problem I've ever had with Word2Clean was when I fed it an OpenOffice Writer doc and instead of <p> tags it gave me <p class="normal"> which was readily fixed by doing a search and replace. |
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I'm not sure why you're having such a hard time understanding everyone's point, so I'll try to make it plain: if the word2clean site creates such clean html, why on earth does it need to be mended and prettified with Sigil? The point is that the html produced by word2clean - BEFORE YOU PRETTIFIED IT WITH SIGIL - was quite ugly.
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Never mind the empty elements--both block and inline.
What exactly is: Code:
<p> <em> </em> </p> |
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Personally, I've cleaned some Word crud manually and the thing is, I know what the changes are vs some website that does it and I have no idea what's been changed.
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Assuming there are margins in the browsers/readers stylesheet for <p> or in the user stylesheet, this will result in an emphasized space between two other elements
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Typically something like: Code:
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<p><br/></p> The empty tags pointed out above will often result in no vertical spacing whatsoever on many reading devices/apps. |
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