[LMB] OT: question about Baen book dowloads

[Michael R N Dolbear]

> From: Sara Kasper <skasper at gmail.com>
> Date: 02 July 2007 03:01
> 
> I have the same problem when I download baen ebooks to my palm. What I do
is
> download the rtf version (rich text format) and open in MS Word. I then
save
> it to txt (plain txt) and substitute characters (because the special open
> and close quotations, etc mess up in e-reader) and then I use the program
> Dropbook from the ereader people to convert them into what I read on my
palm
> (pdb files).

(see suggestion to load the Mobipocket reader so as not to lose italics)

Darting off on a side-issue, Baen ebooks in rtf and other formats should
not contain smart aka curly quotes. I have just checked 1634: The Baltic
War which uses only '"' but does have mdashes '—'.

So if you see them it is because MS Word has been putting them in and I
suggest that you use WordPad instead or fix Word's !*!*!* autocorrect.

B1. In Word, with a document open (you can't do it without a document open
- even a new empty one will do)
B2. Tool -> Autocorrect Options -> Autocorrect Tab

 
Little Egret