[LMB] E-book!

[Scott Raun]

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 05:01:01PM -0400, Michael Bauminger wrote:
> On Monday, Apr 30, 2007 5:04 PM, Scott Raun 
> <sraun at fireopal.org> wrote:
> 
> > This is also why I have an installed, working ConvertLit.
> 
> The problem with this option is that the HTML files that EOS 
> uses to generate the LIT files are usually produced by 
> Microsoft Word, so they are *very* dirty. After using 
> ConvertLit, you end up with files that display words thatare 
> connectedtogether likethis all the time, plus other assorted 
> formatting issues. These formatting problems look 
> particularly bad if you then convert the files to Mobipocket 
> format and read them on your Palm, as I do.

The vast majority of those that I found were at Italic & Bold tags - I
did an awful lot of clean-up just by searching for "</span>" and
replacing it with "</span> ", "<span class="italic">" and replacing it
with " <span class="italic">", ditto for bold (looks like bold is
rarely used in TSK except in places where the spacing works out right
anyway), and then searching for "{two spaces}" and replacing it with
"{one space}", then searching for "</span> </span>" and replacing it
with "</span></span>".

> I spent *hours* manually editing CoC and PoS to produce 
> clean Mobipocket files. I did not buy TSK:B in e-book format 
> because I could not face going through all that again. 
> Although I may just give in and do it, as well as doing 
> TSK:L, because of how good Beguilement was and Legacy is 
> expected to be.

I admit, after the above search & replaces I still had some manual
clean-up to do - since I was reading the HTML version on a PC, I had
the HTML file open in two programs simultaneously (Firefox and
Wordpad), and fixed as I went along.

What I want now is a map larger than 302x482 - at least 604x964,
preferably 906x1446.

-- 
Scott Raun
sraun at fireopal.org