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Old 12-09-2008, 01:34 PM   #1
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Is there any tips or tutorials on formatting books? If I want to start creating books from source files like PG, but I want to improve the format, page breaks etc. I would love to read over some tutorials. Also is there any way to edit .lit files? Or would I go .lit->epub->html?

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Also is there any way to edit .lit files? Or would I go .lit->epub->html?
You would go LIT -> OEB (html, images and .opf). Use either "ConvertLIT GUI" or Calibre's lit2oeb.
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Is there any tips or tutorials on formatting books? If I want to start creating books from source files like PG, but I want to improve the format, page breaks etc. I would love to read over some tutorials. Also is there any way to edit .lit files? Or would I go .lit->epub->html?

Tips on creating good epubs with caliber would be awesome too!
Try https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/How-To:_Create_an_eBook
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Old 12-09-2008, 03:07 PM   #4
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Is there any tips or tutorials on formatting books? If I want to start creating books from source files like PG, but I want to improve the format, page breaks etc. I would love to read over some tutorials. Also is there any way to edit .lit files? Or would I go .lit->epub->html?
As wallcraft said, ConvertLIT or calibre's lit2oeb will both give you HTML from LIT files. I would suggest lit2oeb over ConvertLIT however, as lit2oeb fixes several bugs which can result in deformed extraction.

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Tips on creating good epubs with caliber would be awesome too!
EPUB quality is mostly about the quality of your source markup. If you have high-quality HTML markup you pre-split into files at all page-break, calibre's any2epub will give you just about the best EPUB book you can make.
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It's available on the command-line as 'lit2oeb' .
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