Copy/Paste from LibreOffice: font varies

feraudyh · 12-01-2016, 04:05 PM

Hi,
I wrote a text in Libre Office originally, and I wanted to get it into Sigil with the least work, so I copied and pasted it into Sigil but not as just plain text.
Luckily a lot of my formatting was preserved (like italics), but ...
the strange thing

is that sometimes the text looks like Times New Roman, and most of the time like Arial inside Sigil, whereas I had not meant that.
Is there any way to repair this?
thanks
Henri

MickiTee · 12-01-2016, 05:07 PM

There's an Open Office/Libre Office plugin Writer2ePub that will produce an epub from your document which should solve many of your problems.

In addition there is a sub-forum for the plugin here in E-book Software on Mobile Reads.

Doitsu · 12-01-2016, 05:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MickiTee

There's an Open Office/Libre Office plugin Writer2ePub that will produce an epub from your document which should solve many of your problems.

Shameless plug: there's also a Writer2LaTeX based ODT import Sigil plugin.

DiapDealer · 12-01-2016, 06:00 PM

Any of those suggestions are going to much better than pasting your content into Sigil. Small snippets of text/code is one thing, but copying a ton of rendered content and pasting it (whether plain-text or otherwise) into Book View should always be considered a last resort.

BetterRed · 12-01-2016, 07:36 PM

And if you save as DOCX, there's DiapDealers DOCX Import plugin for Sigil - which I have only just began playing with. I have a feeling that once I get the style mappings right, it will become my preferred Word/Writer to ePUB conversion method.

The plugin can be found at ==>> [Plugin] DOCXImport.

BR

feraudyh · 12-02-2016, 03:37 AM

Thankyou all for your replies,
I have tried the Writer2ePub plugin for LibreOffice. During execution I got a message that it could not convert all the styles I was using, it crashed leaving my LibreOffice writer hanging, and my odt file was corrupted. So I will not be trying it again in the near future.

I will try the ODT import plugin, though.
I will leave the DiapDealers DOCX Import plugin for Sigil as a later alternative if the previous one does not work out.

I have even considered designing my own xml format, some CSS to display it and a Python script to convert the xml into the appropriate XHTML. That is obviously a fair amount of work!

Henri

12-01-2016, 04:05 PM	#1
feraudyh Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2016 Device: Kindle D01100	Copy/Paste from LibreOffice: font varies Hi, I wrote a text in Libre Office originally, and I wanted to get it into Sigil with the least work, so I copied and pasted it into Sigil but not as just plain text. Luckily a lot of my formatting was preserved (like italics), but ... the strange thing is that sometimes the text looks like Times New Roman, and most of the time like Arial inside Sigil, whereas I had not meant that. Is there any way to repair this? thanks Henri

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12-01-2016, 05:07 PM	#2
MickiTee Guru Posts: 838 Karma: 3976266 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: London, UK Device: Sony PRS-505, Pocketbook TL3, TL4, TL5	There's an Open Office/Libre Office plugin Writer2ePub that will produce an epub from your document which should solve many of your problems. In addition there is a sub-forum for the plugin here in E-book Software on Mobile Reads.

12-01-2016, 06:00 PM	#4
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 27,547 Karma: 193191846 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Any of those suggestions are going to much better than pasting your content into Sigil. Small snippets of text/code is one thing, but copying a ton of rendered content and pasting it (whether plain-text or otherwise) into Book View should always be considered a last resort.

12-01-2016, 07:36 PM	#5
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,561 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	And if you save as DOCX, there's DiapDealers DOCX Import plugin for Sigil - which I have only just began playing with. I have a feeling that once I get the style mappings right, it will become my preferred Word/Writer to ePUB conversion method. The plugin can be found at ==>> [Plugin] DOCXImport. BR

12-02-2016, 03:37 AM	#6
feraudyh Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2016 Device: Kindle D01100	Thankyou all for your replies, I have tried the Writer2ePub plugin for LibreOffice. During execution I got a message that it could not convert all the styles I was using, it crashed leaving my LibreOffice writer hanging, and my odt file was corrupted. So I will not be trying it again in the near future. I will try the ODT import plugin, though. I will leave the DiapDealers DOCX Import plugin for Sigil as a later alternative if the previous one does not work out. I have even considered designing my own xml format, some CSS to display it and a Python script to convert the xml into the appropriate XHTML. That is obviously a fair amount of work! Henri