If you open up Sigil after installing it, it will immediately open up a “bare” ePub file (see below). How to extract Word’s rubbish from an ePub and a Kindle Mobi with Sigil In order to get the Microsoft Word styles, click the Home tab to display the “ribbon” with all the basic formatting on it, you’ll be able to assign styles there by clicking buttons with text selected. Notice the is created by the Heading 1 style, the is created by the Heading 2 style and the is created by the Normal style. This is how the above should be created in Microsoft Word.
This is another normal paragraph in which you can have bolds and italics and links.Īnd, here's another paragraph coming up with an image in it.
This is the sort of HTML you should be seeing in the body of your e-book: If you’re a complete HTML novice then don’t worry because it’s real simple. This is because e-books are completely accessible – the reader chooses the font, the color and the size of the text they want to read. What do I mean by that? I mean that there should be no font, color, text size or line height specified – hardly any styling, in fact. Then I discovered how to get rid of Microsoft Word’s rubbish from an ePub with Sigil (free software) and Regular Expressions (a sequence of characters that forms a search pattern).īy the way, Kindle’s Mobi format is almost the same as an ePub, so creating a perfect ePub with Sigil results in a perfect Mobi for Amazon’s Kindle.Į-books should have totally clean HTML. I’ve spend months pulling my hair out wrestling with this (I wasn’t bald before). However, your Kindle looks like a dog’s dinner because of the crap that Microsoft Word inadvertently puts into it: colors in headings, inexplicable font changes, the bullet points coming out smaller than the body text, too big, too small, you name it. There’s no better feeling than putting your heart onto digital paper, uploading a Word file and have your book sold in the largest book store in the world.
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