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Old 04-05-2023, 11:25 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
It's perfectly true. Those styles where SOMEWHERE in the the original.

I was doing CSS & HTML before epub existed and HTML before CSS was a thing.

If there are a lot of pointless similar styles with conversion from Mobi the original is poor. The epub can be cleaned.

Also many big publisher azw3 / epub have massive templates. Use the Remove Unused and Merge identical CSS in the Editor.

Calibre doesn't add new styles.
Well as I say, it may be true for you, but not for me, I can see that from the original to the conversion often. And I didn't actually say it adds new styles. I said it adds many styles, often they are the same styles with the same section. I understand and agree that the original can be very poor but I have seen this with those that aren't, such my own too. Which makes it more difficult to edit, if you use a Calibre conversion, at times, even if it doesn't change the original style, for the reader. I agree that many publishers can may use huge templates but I never did. There is the 1st paragraph, the body and some titles/sub-titles and headlines etc.. There shouldn't be ever a need for much more in a normal fiction paperback style. Complex technical and reference works can be much more complicated granted though.
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