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Originally Posted by ahi
My question is, am I better off converting existing eBooks into some editable format (like Project Gutenberg's EPUBs), do my fixing, then convert them back; or is it better to just work straight from the plaintext and make my own eBooks from scratch?
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I usually work from the plain text version or, at most, from HTML.
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I have this dream about creating a clever Python parser/converter that takes Project Gutenberg text files and creates typographically gorgeous 4.9" by 6.9" PDF files from them via XeLaTeX (to take advantage of a few high quality OTF fonts I have).
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I once had a similar dream, but it's too hard. Source files can use different conventions, and not everything is automatically parseable, how would the parser know whether "an'" has an apostrophe or a closing quote?