body text turns to cellbullet after conversion to structured

Roman,

    In a structured document, element definitions include format rules that specify how each type of element is formatted. The format rules can be context-dependent. Since your conversion table maps 8 different paragraph formats to the <p> element, the formatting of <p> needs to be context-sensitive if you want to duplicate existing format.

   To elaborate just a bit on Scott's suggestion, an EDD defines format rules that can be context-sensitive. When you apply a conversion table to a document that does not already have element definitions, FM creates preliminary element definitions. Since it is not possible to automatically deduce the contexts that cause desired formatting to change, conversion tables simply assign the same format to all occurrences of an element.

  Thus, the behavior you describe is probably not a bug, but the result of an incomplete process. The conversion table helps deduce an element structure, but it cannot build a complete EDD.

   By the way, you can use the preliminary element definitions to get started in developing your EDD. The StructureTools > Export Element Catalog as EDD command generates an EDD corresponding to the minimal element definitions built by the conversion table. You can edit the result. For example, as well as making the formatting context-senstivie, you'll probably want to change the everything-is-allowed-everywhere GeneralRules. You can also rearrange the element definitions, group them into sections, and add comments.

    --Lynne