Rudy Rucker on Making Epubs

[Snooty Baronet]

The science fiction author Rudy Rucker has just posted a useful, basic guide to creating epubs using common software:

http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2011/...ur-own-ebooks/

Rudy uses Adobe Dreamweaver to filter Word crap from his (already) filtered HTML files. Is there a free HTML editor that does something similar?

[Toxaris]

You can easily remove it by hand. It is not that complicated and a few good RegEx expressions will help.

[Keroberos]

There's also a few websites that can clean word html files. I use this one ocasionally http://www.wordhtmlcleaner.co.uk/. It does have a 1 megabyte file limit so you might have to split your word file. You still have to do some cleanup though (it converts all the <p> tags into <br /> tags)

[DiapDealer]

You still have to do some cleanup though (it converts all the <p> tags into <br /> tags)

Ouch!

[Keroberos]

It's actually not to bad, just find/replace the <br /> with <p> then let Sigil automatically close the tag and you're ready to start adding your own formatting.

[DiapDealer]

It's actually not to bad, just find/replace the <br /> with <p> then let Sigil automatically close the tag and you're ready to start adding your own formatting.

I rarely let any program "automatically" make wholesale changes to my html. I'm too much of a control freak.

I've experienced disasters relying on Sigil to close tags properly on it's own (as much as I love Sigil), but if the process works for you....

[Keroberos]

I agree, I never let Sigil automatically close tags after I have started applying formating (I've experienced disasters there too). But as a first step if anything goes wrong not too much time is lost, usually less then the time it takes to manually remove word's retarded html formating). also I suck at regular expressions, so this way is actually faster for me (and removes almost all formating but headings, italics and bolds, so is useful for those times I want to completely remove all formating). And this seems to be one case where Sigil doesn't have a problem closing the tags automatically.

[Snooty Baronet]

Originally Posted by Keroberos

There's also a few websites that can clean word html files. I use this one ocasionally http://www.wordhtmlcleaner.co.uk/. It does have a 1 megabyte file limit so you might have to split your word file. You still have to do some cleanup though (it converts all the <p> tags into <br /> tags)

Thanks! I'll check it out.