Typing in Book View

[exaltedwombat]

Including the NEXT character in a backspace-delete is often a safe way of ensuring you've covered everything.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Ok, got it. If you want to stay in book view and be assured that you're not inputting an   then this sequence works:

1. Highlight the rift between the two parts of the paragraph
2. I seem to be unable to not highlight the first character of the lower half
3. Press DEL then SPACEBAR then type the character you also highlighted to replace it.

Poof, a regular space instead of an   and you haven't had to go to code view!! The workflow is smooth.

Y'know, I'd swear that this is precisely what I did...I'll have to test this. I have to fix up some more material () on this book that was bollixed by the guy who originally did it, anyway.

One of the unintended consequences of Calibre: people charging thousands of dollars to run a damn PDF through it to produce an ePUB, and not knowing one bloody thing about why the results are a damn abortion. I'm so angry about this guy I can't talk rationally about it, and what's to be done?

Hitch

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by exaltedwombat

Including the NEXT character in a backspace-delete is often a safe way of ensuring you've covered everything.

Unless the next-to-next character is a space, if I understood the problem correctly.

[JSWolf]

If the ePub doesn't actually use any   you could just work in BV, using the spacebar as normal and when done, just search/replace all the   to a space.

[Turtle91]

"Thousands of dollars to run a PDF through Calibre??!!??!!?? PT Barnum was right - "A sucker born every minute"....not to mention those willing to take advantage of them....sad

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

"Thousands of dollars to run a PDF through Calibre??!!??!!?? PT Barnum was right - "A sucker born every minute"....not to mention those willing to take advantage of them....sad

It's a dreadful story. This poor elderly man was taken advantage of by two scam artists, one allegedly an "editor" (who did nothing but transcribe his dictation, and then also charged him $850 for "helping" the layout person layout his book), and then the layout guy charged him $2500 for a layout in INDD plus two ebooks, and this book was DEAD SIMPLE. One paragraph of text after another, with some images in clumps. $850 for a wraparound cover design.

Total between the two? Nearly $6,000.00. SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS. My charge to fix his ePUB, and make a working mobi? $125, because I couldn't bring myself to charge him the time it would really take to fix it.

And, no, I'm not a sucker, but I know this guy, and this was a rotten thing for someone to do to him. Nicest guy on the planet. Was he a sucker? Maybe, but just because someone isn't sophisticated is no reason to rip them off.

H

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Ok, got it. If you want to stay in book view and be assured that you're not inputting an   then this sequence works:

1. Highlight the rift between the two parts of the paragraph
2. I seem to be unable to not highlight the first character of the lower half
3. Press DEL then SPACEBAR then type the character you also highlighted to replace it.

Poof, a regular space instead of an   and you haven't had to go to code view!! The workflow is smooth.

Amend line 3 to this:

3. Press SPACEBAR then type the character you also highlighted to replace it.

[Turtle91]

Originally Posted by Hitch

... and this was a rotten thing for someone to do to him. Nicest guy on the planet. Was he a sucker? Maybe, but just because someone isn't sophisticated is no reason to rip them off.

H

Yeah, that didn't sound right...I meant to be disparaging towards those who take advantage of others...PT Barnum being one of those who looked for "suckers".

$6000 !!! OMG!!

I hope he is able to recover that quickly!

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

Yeah, that didn't sound right...I meant to be disparaging towards those who take advantage of others...PT Barnum being one of those who looked for "suckers".

$6000 !!! OMG!!

I hope he is able to recover that quickly!

Oh, LOL! Sorry!

My answer didn't come out right, either. I wasn't referring to your usage of the term...I just meant that I don't normally give away our services, but this poor guy; I just couldn't bear to charge him more. He gave me permission to post his ePUB anywhere, if it would save others from being ripped off by those two, but I can't stand to embarrass him further than he's already been embarrassed. I thought I might mention these two at Preditors and Editors and some of the other places, like AW Water Cooler, etc.

I imagine it will take him a very, very long time to recoup that.

Hitch