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Originally Posted by AuthorGreg
Do you guys who write in HTML exclusively have any links or books on the subject of just HOW you go about this? I mean, is there a way to write creatively without spending too much time along the way with HTML tags for non-breaking ellipses, italics, em-dashes, and the like.
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I think you'll find that a lot of people here don't actually do a lot of
writing. period. I think for the most part, the people who are in here a lot giving advice and answering questions are simply creating ebooks from other people's content. That's why there's still quite a bit of a disconnect between
writing a book and
creating an ebook. Writers enjoy the comfort of a familiar, powerful word processing package... but ebook creators despise the extraneous, convoluted code those programs produce that they're then saddled with making an ebook from.
I don't think there's an easy answer here. But I will say; no.... I certainly don't think writers should be expected to
create in html. That's not realistic or fair. There is some word processing software that will produce
better html than Word, but I don't think there's enough of a pronounced improvement from Word (I'm including Open Office) that would justify asking the writer to alter their creative process.