[LMB] E-book!
B. Ross Ashley
redlion at sff.net
Tue May 1 22:30:08 BST 2007
On Tue, 1 May 2007 17:01:01 -0400< "Michael Bauminger"
<lmblist at mikebomb.com> 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.
> 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.
Ah, that's what did that! I thought it was a flaw in ConvertLit, until
ABC Amber LIT Converter did the same Dralm-d*mned thing.
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