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RWD Announces 'Men of the West, Women From the East'
SANDRO43:
--- Quote from: TwoBitBandit on February 20, 2012, 01:50:03 AM ---The question "From a SINGLE HTML file?" doesn't seem to me to be asking the right question since HTML links tend to form a hierarchy of content.
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The question was right, connsidering the behaviour of the tool that you initially suggested :(:
--- Quote ---Sorry, I goofed.
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--- Quote ---The tool I actually use is Mobipocket Creator.
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OK, I downloaded it and shall try it out.
--- Quote ---If you have images or other files, you normally link to them, and an appropriate ebook compiler will read in the linked filed and compile them as part of the ebook.
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Obviously ::).
SANDRO43:
--- Quote from: SANDRO43 on February 20, 2012, 06:44:37 AM ---:OK, I downloaded it and shall try it out.
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Well I did, and the result was not much satisfactory, the book formatting is all messed up and I think it'd require too much rework on the original HTML code for a decent result :-\.
TwoBitBandit:
--- Quote from: SANDRO43 on February 20, 2012, 09:39:42 AM ---Well I did, and the result was not much satisfactory, the book formatting is all messed up and I think it'd require too much rework on the original HTML code for a decent result :-\ .
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You're almost certainly right. Writing good, platform-agnostic HTML takes time, especially if you haven't done it before. I spent hours getting it right in the first ebook I wrote.
SANDRO43:
--- Quote from: TwoBitBandit on February 20, 2012, 11:07:07 AM --- Writing good, platform-agnostic HTML takes time, especially if you haven't done it before.
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Not sure what that means ::). I learned HTML after learning/using in the 1990s the IBM BookMaster, a simplified version of SCRIPT/VS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Generalized_Markup_Language) for our mainframes that we had adopted then to produce our manuals.
Initially I was surprised by seeing that the HTML tags were identical, but I should not have since IBM's presence on standards committees was very influential then, and when the matter arose of text-formatting standards, they probably said: "Let's not reinvent the wheel, we already have a proven working tool for the publishing industry, let's use that." ;)
55North:
--- Quote from: 55North on May 25, 2009, 07:56:59 AM ---Many thanks. I'll give that a go later.
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Wow. I just read it. 3 + years later.
That's because I've been busy doing it, not reading about it!
Most Mac users will have upgraded everything, as I have - to include a Windows partition, so no problems there.
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