[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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