On 02/20/2010 08:16 PM, David Burleigh wrote: > Here is the procedure I'm following: I export a .odt document to .html > format, so as to preserve the footnotes. Then I import this .html > document into a text frame. It then appears in the text frame with font > Ariel, and retains any italics that was used in the original .odt > document. Then I apply the paragraph styles that I want to use for my > layout, which use a different font, say Goudy Old Style, and the italics > (or underlining, or superscripts, etc.) disappear. Isn't there a way to > apply styles without losing these embedded renditions? It is very > tedious to have to go over the text and re-italicize the words that were > originally in italics.
What you might consider is trying a dual-method technique, where you import the bulk of your text using and ODT file, then html to catch the footnotes. I haven't done this, so I don't know the nuts and bolts of it, but I would think it should be less work than redoing all the italicized text. Greg
