Getting rid of MsoNormal

[GraciousMe]

Hello

I am working on a book in Sigil. Converted it from Word to html (Save as Web page, filtered). Still I have tons of <p class="MsoNormal"> tags lying around.

Should I leave them or remove them?

And can I remove them next time even before importing to Sigil?

[Toxaris]

You should definitively clean it up. Search the forum, there are several topics about this.

[JSWolf]

Look in the CSS and see what MsoNormal is. Clean that up. Then you'll know if you can remove it.

[mncowboy]

MsoNormal is Word's normal or standard paragraph. You can leave them there if you want, but I like to clean them up to work with my stylesheet. You can do a simple search and replace.
Search for <p class="MsoNormal"> and replace it with <p>.
Bob

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by mncowboy

MsoNormal is Word's normal or standard paragraph. You can leave them there if you want, but I like to clean them up to work with my stylesheet. You can do a simple search and replace.
Search for <p class="MsoNormal"> and replace it with <p>.
Bob

You also then have to set the p style in the CSS to be what you want.

[GraciousMe]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Look in the CSS and see what MsoNormal is. Clean that up. Then you'll know if you can remove it.

There is no MsoNormal in the CSS. It just got into the code itself...

Thanks folks. I will try your suggestions.

[mrmikel]

MsoNormal should be somewhere other than in the text, if it referred to in the text. Do a search for it and see if it at the top of every chapter, instead of the stylesheet.

[mncowboy]

This is one issue with saving a Word doc as a filtered web page. It styles everything, and includes all styles in the document, whether they are used or not.
Word doesn't create a css file, it puts the css styles in the head of the document.
In Word I make sure that the styles I want in the final book are set up and used.
When I import the html file into Sigil, the first thing I do is delete everything within the style tags in the head. Then replace <p class="MsoNormal"> with <p>. The style sheet used in Sigil should match the styles in the Word doc. Now that stylesheet will control the styles and text in the file you imported.
Bob

[Crossroad Press]

Personally I'd either set the styles up in Word to be the way you want them and leave it, or not do HTML pages out of Word...plenty of WYSIWYG HTML editors out there that will do just fine and never add in the offending code to start with.

[GraciousMe]

Originally Posted by mncowboy

Word doesn't create a css file, it puts the css styles in the head of the document.

And, it seems, every time I divide off a separate chapter from the whole, these styles multiply and get into EVERY chapter. :-(

Originally Posted by mncowboy

When I import the html file into Sigil, the first thing I do is delete everything within the style tags in the head.

I guess this is the head of the ENTIRE document (?).

[GraciousMe]

Originally Posted by Crossroad Press

Personally I'd either set the styles up in Word to be the way you want them and leave it, or not do HTML pages out of Word...plenty of WYSIWYG HTML editors out there that will do just fine and never add in the offending code to start with.

But if you don´t do HTML from Word, what do you start out with then? In what form is your manuscript?

Or you mean one can just copy a word file into a HTML editor? Is that possible?

[st_albert]

Originally Posted by GraciousMe

But if you don´t do HTML from Word, what do you start out with then? In what form is your manuscript?

Or you mean one can just copy a word file into a HTML editor? Is that possible?

When I want to go from a Word doc to an epub as directly as possible, I open the Word doc with LibreOffice, and export an epub using either Luke Calcinai's writer2epub, or the Writer2xhtml extensions. The results usually need some further tweaking in Sigil, however.

[Toxaris]

You could also try my 'clean' HTML macro for Word. That produces clean code and you can use Styles in Word. You still need to create the stylesheet yourself though. I thought about adding a stylesheet exporter, but since I don't need it and I created the macro for myself...

[Hitch]

I can vouch for Toxie's "clean html" macro, works very well for those of you struggling with cleaning Word-->exported to filtered html.

Hitch

[mncowboy]

Originally Posted by GraciousMe

And, it seems, every time I divide off a separate chapter from the whole, these styles multiply and get into EVERY chapter. :-(



I guess this is the head of the ENTIRE document (?).

Do this before you split the document into chapters. Your file will look like:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered)">
<style>
<!--
 /* Font Definitions */
. . . A few hundred lines of styles . . .
-->
</style>
</head>
<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple>

Delete all the lines between the style tags - including the style tags.
Bob