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02-19-2008, 11:16 PM | #32 |
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Due to the many kind words of encouragement and private messages from some of the moderators on this site I am going to end my brief retirement. I still have not figured out the whole em dash thing. For those of you that this an issue I offer the following graphic as a warning.
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02-19-2008, 11:48 PM | #34 | |
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If you choose (as is your undisputed right) not to include emdash support in your past, present or future uploads ... well then, folks who prefer them (like myself) can just take "thank you for your interest, but I don't do emdashes" for an answer, and re-do the books ourselves if it bugs us enough. If you should decide to do them at some point, that's your call, and you know where to find info on the subject. That matter aside, welcome back! |
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02-20-2008, 12:44 AM | #35 | |
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I believe that you create your books with Book Designer, yes? All you have to do is: 1. Go to this thread and download the book cleaner files. Unzip them into the "BookCleaner" subdirectory of the BD installation. 2. Run BD, and from the "Tools" menu select "Book Cleaner". In the Book Cleaner window, select "1.bcf" from the "input file before formatting" drop-down, and "2.bcf" from the "input file after formatting" drop-down. 3. Close the Book Cleaner window and exit BD. Those settings will be remembered. Now, whenever you load a new book, Book Cleaner will "process" the file and automatically preserve dashes, etc. The only other thing you have to do, when you create a SONY book, is go to the "Options" page of the "Make Sony Book" dialog, and in the "Misc" section of the page (at the far right side), set the "Dashes" drop-down to "as it is". That's it! |
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It is indeed very easy. The problem, however, is that if you create books with the standard settings of BookDesigner, the emdashes (or the equivalent "--" of a PG book) get converted not to " - ", but to "-" (without any spaces) and hence can't be distinguished from hyphens. One can of course search for "-" and decide in each individual case whether it should be a hyphen or a dash, but it's a lot of work for a long book. I speak from experience, having done exactly that for a number of books where dashes were missing from the original.
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Is the problem that BD is not "remembering" the Book Cleaner settings (ie when you run BD and select "Tools/Book Cleaner", has it "remembered" the two file settings?), or that it doesn't appear to be "doing" anything?
Book Cleaner only does anything when you load a new file into BD; it doesn't do anything when you open an existing BD file, or if you "paste" content into a BD window; you have to actually open the new file, either using the "File/Open" button in BD, or by right-clicking on a file in Windows Explorer and selecting "Open With..." then "BookDesigner". |
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02-20-2008, 05:48 AM | #43 | |
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Maybe this is related to the lack of the msvcr71.dll. If I remember well, this is a DLL that is installed with a lot of MS products, and is used by quite a number of other programs. Here is where you can download it : http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dl....shtml?msvcr71 Or it could be related to the .Net framework not being isntalled on your PC. Is the error message you get containing specific information or is it a generic one ? |
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02-20-2008, 06:37 AM | #44 |
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Actually, I think that a lot of the problem is that Madam B does not have Microsoft Word on the computer. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that this is necessary for the correct running of Book Designer.
You don't have to use Word, but it needs to be there. A hint: it is often possible to get Microsoft Office very cheaply and legally as a licensed copy from your workplace or College. Mine is licensed to me as a member of my university. My sister is running a copy licensed to her from the NHS. |
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No, it's related to the fact that BD uses one of the COM libraries of Word to do a lot of file conversion. I don't think it uses it to read text files, but it does for HTML, RTF, etc.
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